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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 Tekton

When you look at CI/CD solutions, they all aim to do the same thing. Essentially, you provide a pipeline with an input (typically, this is your source code), and you get an output at the end (typically, this is a packaged application).

The steps that are performed on your inputs can vary from one project to another, but the same ones can also be used across all your projects. Think of actions such as git clone. Chances are, this will almost always be the first step in your pipeline.

The main goal of Tekton is to provide a cloud-native standard set of building blocks for CI/CD systems to make it easier and faster to build, test, and package up your source code. It runs on Kubernetes and can target any platform, any language, and any cloud.

The Tekton project's vision is to create a set of composable, declarative, reproducible, and cloud-native components that can be used to develop robust pipelines. Because Tekton adds a set of Custom Resource Definitions...

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