Tekton Pipelines cli

The Tekton Pipelines cli project provides a CLI for interacting with Tekton!

Getting Started

Installing tkn

Download the latest binary executable for your operating system:

• Mac OS X

  • tektoncd-cli can be installed as a brew tap:

  brew tap tektoncd/tools
  brew install tektoncd/tools/tektoncd-cli

  • Or by the released tarball:

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.8.0/tkn_0.8.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.8.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin tkn

• Windows

  • tektoncd-cli can be installed as a Chocolatey package:

  choco install tektoncd-cli --confirm

  • Or by the released zip file in the instructions below:

  • Uncompress the zip file

  • Add the location of where the executable is to your Path by opening Control Panel>System and Security>System>Advanced System Settings

  • Click on Environment Variables, select the Path variable, and click Edit

  • Click New and add the location of the uncompressed zip to the Path

  • Finish by clicking Ok

Linux tarballs

• Linux AMD 64

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.8.0/tkn_0.8.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.8.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

• Linux ARM 64

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.8.0/tkn_0.8.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.8.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

Linux RPMs

If you are running on any of the following rpm based distros:

• Fedora30
• Fedora31
• Centos7
• Centos8
• EPEL
• RHEL8

you would be able to use @chmouel's unofficial copr package repository by running the following commands:

dnf copr enable chmouel/tektoncd-cli
dnf install tektoncd-cli

• Binary RPM package

On any other RPM based distros, you can install the rpm directly:

 rpm -Uvh https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.8.0/tektoncd-cli-0.8.0_Linux-64bit.rpm

Linux Debs

• Ubuntu PPA

If you are running on the latest Ubuntu or Debian, you would be able to use our TektonCD CLI PPA:

sudo apt update;sudo apt install -y gnupg
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3EFE0E0A2F2F60AA
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tektoncd/cli/ubuntu eoan main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tektoncd-ubuntu-cli.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y tektoncd-cli

The PPA may work with older releases, but that hasn't been tested.

• Binary DEB package

On any other Debian or Ubuntu based distro, you can simply install the binary package directly with dpkg:

curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.8.0/tektoncd-cli-0.8.0_Linux-64bit.deb
dpkg -i tektoncd-cli-0.8.0_Linux-64bit.deb

Source install

If you have go installed and you want to compile the CLI from source, you can checkout the Git repository and run the following commands:

export GO111MODULE=on
make bin/tkn

This will output the tkn binary in bin/tkn

tkn as a kubectl plugin

kubectl will find any binary named kubectl-* on your PATH and consider it as a plugin. After installing tkn, create a link as kubectl-tkn

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/tkn /usr/local/bin/kubectl-tkn

Run the following to confirm tkn is available as a plugin:

$ kubectl plugin list

You should see the following after running kubectl plugin list if tkn is available as a plugin:

/usr/local/bin/kubectl-tkn

If the output above is shown, run kubectl-tkn to see the list of available tkn commands to run.

Useful Commands

The following commands help you understand and effectively use the Tekton CLI:

• tkn help: Displays a list of the commands with helpful information.
• tkn clustertask: Parent command of the ClusterTask command group.
• tkn completion: Outputs a BASH or ZSH completion script for tkn to allow command completion with Tab.
• tkn condition: Parent command of the Condition command group.
• tkn eventlistener: Parent command of the Eventlistener command group.
• tkn pipeline: Parent command of the Pipeline command group.
• tkn pipelinerun: Parent command of the Pipelinerun command group.
• tkn resource: Parent command of the Resource command group.
• tkn task: Parent command of the Task command group.
• tkn taskrun: Parent command of the Taskrun command group.
• tkn triggerbinding: Parent command of the Triggerbinding command group.
• tkn triggertemplate: Parent command of the Triggertemplate command group.
• tkn version: Outputs the cli version.

For every tkn command, you can use -h or --help flags to display specific help for that command.

Want to contribute

We are so excited to have you!

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for an overview of our processes
• See DEVELOPMENT.md for how to get started
• See ROADMAP.md for the current roadmap
• Look at our good first issues and our help wanted issues