tektoncd/pipeline

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Tekton Pipelines is a Kubernetes-native framework that provides CRD-style resources for declaring CI/CD pipelines, using containers as building blocks. It is the core component of the Tekton ecosystem, a CNCF incubating project, enabling build, test, and deploy workflows across cloud providers and on-premise clusters.

Use cases

• define ci/cd pipelines as kubernetes custom resources
• build container images in a kubernetes cluster
• run test and deploy workflows on kubernetes
• create a reusable pipeline that deploys to any k8s cluster
• trigger pipeline runs from git events
• standardize ci/cd tooling across vendors and environments

When to choose

• your workloads already run on kubernetes and you want pipelines as cluster resources
• you need composable, container-based build/test/deploy steps with swappable implementations
• you want a cloud-native, serverless-feeling alternative to Jenkins
• you want git-native CI/CD with Pipelines-as-Code across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

When to avoid

• you have no kubernetes cluster and only need simple CI on a single VM
• you need a turnkey hosted CI service with UI out of the box rather than building blocks
• your team cannot manage kubernetes CRDs and operators

Facets

framework · maturity stable

ci-cd deployment workflow-automation container-orchestration cloud-computing developer-tools cloud go self-hosted cicd kubernetes-crds pipelines cncf build-and-deploy cloud-native devops containers automation kubernetes docker

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