Tekton Pipelines cli

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

Installing tkn

Download the latest binary executable for your operating system:

• Mac OS X

  • tektoncd-cli is available from brew:

  brew install tektoncd-cli

  • Or by the released tarball:

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.15.0/tkn_0.15.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.15.0_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/v0.15.0/tkn_0.15.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.15.0_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/v0.15.0/tkn_0.15.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.15.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

• Linux IBM Z

  # Get the tar.gz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.15.0/tkn_0.15.0_Linux_s390x.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.15.0_Linux_s390x.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

• Linux IBM P

  # Get the tar.gz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.15.0/tkn_0.15.0_Linux_ppc64le.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.15.0_Linux_ppc64le.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/v0.15.0/tektoncd-cli-0.15.0_Linux-64bit.rpm

Linux Debs

• Ubuntu PPA

If you are running on the latest LTS Ubuntu or Debian, you can use the 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 focal 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/v0.14qqq.0/tektoncd-cli-0.15.0_Linux-64bit.deb
dpkg -i tektoncd-cli-0.15.0_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 clustertriggerbinding: Parent command of the ClusterTriggerBinding command group.
• tkn completion: Outputs a BASH, ZSH, Fish or PowerShell 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 hub: Search and install Tekton Resources from Hub
• 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.

Disable Color and Emojis in Output

For many tkn commands, color and emojis by default will appear in command output. tkn offers two approaches for disabling color and emojis from command output.

To remove the color and emojis from all tkn command output, set the environment variable NO_COLOR, such as shown below:

export NO_COLOR=""

More information on NO_COLOR can be found in the NO_COLOR documentation.

To remove color and emojis from the output of a single command execution, the --no-color option can be used with any command, such as in the example below:

tkn taskrun describe --no-color

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