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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Digging into TaskRuns

Task runs are the actual executions of the tasks themselves. Tasks are essentially just a template to build task runs. When you use the tkn CLI tool to start a task, it uses that template, binds the parameters and the options, and then starts the execution.

The visualization tools, such as the VS Code extension or Tekton Dashboard, can help get some insights about the task runs, but sometimes, you might need more information.

To see the content of a task run, start by creating one for the groceries Task that you created earlier:

$ tkn task start groceries --showlog 
? Value for param `grocery-items` of type `array`? milk,bread,coffee 
TaskRun started: groceries-run-k24zp 
Waiting for logs to be available... 
 
[grocery-list] Grocery List 
[grocery-list] => milk 
[grocery-list] => bread 
[grocery-list] => coffee 

Notice the line that starts with TaskRun started. It should show the name of the task run that was just started. This is a random...

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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