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/v0.5.0/tkn_0.5.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.5.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin tkn

• Windows

  • 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 AMD 64

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.5.0/tkn_0.5.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.5.0_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/v0.5.0/tkn_0.5.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.5.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

  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

• 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

kubectl will find any binary named kubectl-* on your PATH and consider it as a plugin

$ ./kubectl plugin list
/usr/local/bin/kubectl-tkn

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 completion: Outputs a BASH or ZSH completion script for tkn to allow command completion with Tab.
• tkn version: Outputs the cli version.
• tkn pipeline: Parent command of the Pipeline command group.
• tkn pipelinerun: Parent command of the Pipelinerun command group.
• tkn task: Parent command of the Task command group.
• tkn taskrun: Parent command of the Taskrun command group.
• tkn clustertask: Parent command of the ClusterTask command group.
• tkn resource: Parent command of the Resource command group.
• tkn condition: Parent command of the Condition command group.

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
• Look at our good first issues and our help wanted issues