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Joel Lord
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Cleaning up with finally

On that last pipeline run, a fatal error occurred. It tried to clone the repository, but Git requires an empty directory to clone the files into. The folder already had files from the previous clone operation.

To avoid those errors and ensure that you always start from a clean slate, you will need to clean up your persisting workspaces when the pipeline run has terminated. To do so, you will need to add a cleanup task. You will also need to ensure this task runs at the end of the pipeline, even if an error terminated the pipeline before it completed its run. This is where the finally tasks will come into play.

In this section, you will add a cleanup task to your pipeline that will remove all the files from the workspace:

  1. Create a new file called cleanup.yaml. In here, create a new task named cleanup:
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1 
    kind: Task 
    metadata: 
      name: cleanup 
    spec: 
  2. Just like the other tasks you've built in this...
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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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