tkn-watch - watch a PipelineRuns on its way to success or failures

tkn-watch is a simple extension to the tkn command line tool that watches a PipelineRuns and exit with the PipelineRun status.

It mimics the behaviour of GitHub cli run watch command.

Screenshot

Demo

Screen.Recording.2022-05-09.at.09.55.49.mov

Installation

Binaries

Go to the release page and grab the archive or package targeting your platform.

Homebrew

brew tap chmouel/tkn-watch https://github.com/chmouel/tkn-watch
brew install tkn-watch

Crates.io

cargo install tkn-watch

Arch

With your favourite aurhelper for example yay :

yay -S tkn-watch-bin

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/chmouel/tkn-watch # don't forget to bind your kubeconfig

Usage

% tkn watch <pipelinerun-name>

If you don't have tkn cli installed you can call the plug-in directly with tkn-watch

If you don't specify a PipelineRun it will ask you nicely for a running Pipelinerun to watch, auto-selecting one if there is only one running.

When you give the flag -l/--last tkn-watch will use the last PipelineRun started.

You can use the flag -n to specify another namespace than the current one.

You can adjust the time to wait between checks with the flag -r/--refresh-seconds, the default is 3 seconds.

If you don't want a fancy output and just have it reporting quietly success or failure then you can use the -q/--quiet flag for this.

tkn watch exit with the pipelinerun status, so you can do fancy things like (on macOS):

tkn watch -lq || osascript -e 'display notification "PipelineRun Has Failed :("' && osascript -e 'display notification "PipelineRun Has Succeeded, time to commit again :)"'

If you use pipelines-as-code it will detect the headers and show which event and sha this PR targets.

Copyright

Apache-2.0

Authors

Chmouel Boudjnah <@chmouel>