Houston, We’ve Got a Problem! : How to Debug your Pipeline in Tekton

Tecton is an open source project that provides a set of standard and shareable components for building Kubernetes CI/CD systems. It allows you to write declarative pipelines with standard custom resources, and everything runs in containers. Tecton provides a set of powerful user interfaces, including an official command line tool and dashboard.

• Tecton is an open source project for building Kubernetes CI/CD systems
• Declarative pipelines can be written with standard custom resources
• Everything runs in containers, providing flexibility and reusability
• Tecton provides powerful user interfaces, including an official command line tool and dashboard

One example of Tecton's flexibility is the ability to build images using Kubernetes tools inside a task, and then reuse those images in other parts of the pipeline through parameters and resources.

It’s always been nice to have CI/CD as a part of your infrastructure. Nothing better than being able to automate your workflows and have jobs done for you in a timely manner. It would be a shame if your jobs/pipelines break now would it. Now all you need to do is sit and take apart the individual components of your pipeline and figure out where you went wrong. We have all been there. Only if we could debug our Pipelines :) As common as task debugging is in the programming world, in the CI/CD world, it is ridden with complexities of the infrastructure and reiterative approaches which kill time. With Tekton, it is possible to debug your pipelines on the go without stopping/restarting your PipelineRun. Tekton is a Kubernetes based, lightweight, serverless, and an easy to manage CI/CD solution which a user can use to create as well as debug their PipelineRuns at a Step level to understand what is wrong with their pipeline providing a more complete CI/CD solution.