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Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton

You're reading from  Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078214
Pages 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joel Lord Joel Lord
Profile icon Joel Lord

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to CI/CD
2. Chapter 1: A Brief History of CI/CD 3. Chapter 2: A Cloud-Native Approach to CI/CD 4. Section 2: Tekton Building Blocks
5. Chapter 3: Installation and Getting Started 6. Chapter 4: Stepping into Tasks 7. Chapter 5: Jumping into Pipelines 8. Chapter 6: Debugging and Cleaning Up Pipelines and Tasks 9. Chapter 7: Sharing Data with Workspaces 10. Chapter 8: Adding when Expressions 11. Chapter 9: Securing Authentication 12. Section 3: Tekton Triggers
13. Chapter 10: Getting Started with Triggers 14. Chapter 11: Triggering Tekton 15. Section 4: Putting It All Together
16. Chapter 12: Preparing for a New Pipeline 17. Chapter 13: Building a Deployment Pipeline 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing pipeline runs

Pipeline runs are to pipelines what task runs are to tasks. They are the actual executions of the pipelines.

Using the pipeline used in the last section, let's create a new pipeline run and examine the output:

$ tkn pipeline start results 
? Value for param `sides` of type `string`? (Default is `6`) 6 
PipelineRun started: results-run-sb6lk 
  
In order to track the PipelineRun progress run: 
tkn pipelinerun logs results-run-sb6lk -f -n default 

You can see that when you run the tkn pipeline start command, it generates a pipeline run with a random name. In this case, the name is results-run-sb6lk. To see the output of the run, you will use the tkn CLI tool to visualize the logs of this specific pipeline run.

Because pipeline runs are Kubernetes objects, you can manipulate them with kubectl the same way you would any other Kubernetes primitive. For example, you could use kubectl get to list all the pipeline runs that exist inside...

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