Authenticating into a Git repository

For this first hands-on example, you will start by creating a private repository in GitHub. Once this Git repository is ready, you will create a Secret object in Kubernetes. This object will contain your credentials and will be assigned to a service account. Using this specific service account in your runs, you will be able to clone a private repository.

For the following examples, you will need a private GitHub repository with a README.md file and the credentials for it.

Once you have a private repository in place, you can create the following task in a file named task.yaml. This task will use the alpine/git image to clone a repository and output the content of the README.md file:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1 
kind: Task 
metadata: 
 name: read-file 
spec: 
 params: 
   - name: private-repo 
     type: string 
 steps: 
   - name: clone 
     image: alpine...