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Joel Lord
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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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Preparing the Tekton tooling

Now that you have all the necessary tooling to run Tekton, it's time to get started with Tekton itself. The first step will be to install one final CLI tool to interact with Tekton. You can find this tool along with the installation instructions for your operating system at https://tekton.dev/docs/getting-started/#set-up-the-cli. If you prefer, you can also find the latest release directly on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/tag/v0.16.0.

Throughout this book, I will be using version 0.16.0 of the client.

You are now done with the installation of all the required tooling that will be needed for this book and to interact with any Tekton pipeline. The next step will be to install Tekton on your Kubernetes cluster. This command will install all the CRDs to be able to run Tekton Tasks and Pipelines. To install Tekton from your command line, use kubectl to fetch and install the latest release, as follows:

$ kubectl...
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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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