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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

Creating the trigger

In this section, you will learn how to create your first trigger. This trigger will listen for GitHub webhooks and automatically start the pipeline you've just built.

As you now know, you will need three components to set up your triggers. The first new object you will create here is the trigger binding.

TriggerBinding

When GitHub sends a request to your cluster, you will need to extract some of the information sent to convert it to a parameter used by the trigger template.

Webhook payloads

As you build more complex pipelines, you might want to extract more information from the webhook than just the repository name. You might want to check the branch on which the push was done or the name of the committer. You can find the full definition of the webhook payloads on the GitHub documentation site at https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads#push.

In a new file named binding.yaml, start by...

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