Make all used images configurable

[Obirah]

Feature request

Currently the tekton operator and all the components it deploys use images from gcr.io - of course, this should remain the sane default, however when using the operator in an enterprise environment one needs to change the images so that mirrors can be used.

Use case

In our corporate environment we use Artifactory in order to use remotes of the big image repositories like Docker Hub, gcr, quay and so on. As a workaround gcr.io can be accessed through a proxy, but it is highly encouraged by our security/compliance guidelines to use our remotes instead of directly accessing the repositories.

[nikhil-thomas]

This is currently doable in operator by setting environment variables. We do this while creating operator releases which is made available on Red Hat OpenShift.

Currently we can override images by setting environment variables like this in the operator controller deployment.

I shall document this better.

[Obirah]

Cool, thank you for the information, that eases some pain! :) However, mid- and long-term I think it would be cooler to be able to configure this through custom resources. In my opinion the ArgoCD operator is a good example on how to approach this topic.

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[vdemeester]

@Obirah probably a naive question : would it work to use kustomize for this ? (aka replacing the set of image with an overlay or something)

[DarthBlair]

This is currently doable in operator by setting environment variables. We do this while creating operator releases which is made available on Red Hat OpenShift.

Currently we can override images by setting environment variables like this in the operator controller deployment.

I shall document this better.

Thanks!
At the moment we are unable to identify the env variable for changing the dashboard image. Does anyone have a hint or solution for that as well?

[Oded-B]

This is currently doable in operator by setting environment variables. We do this while creating operator releases which is made available on Red Hat OpenShift.

Does the fact that those env vars are missing from the k8s bundle config means they wouldn't work with the k8s operator in its current form?

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[willzhang]

It's impossible for offline install with helm chart with tekton v0.68.1, if we can do this it will be greate:

helm install tekton-operator
--set chains.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set dashboard.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set hub.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set pipeline.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set pipelines-as-code.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set results.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1
--set triggers.image.url=xxx:v0.17.1

or support extra env

helm install tekton-operator
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_PROXY=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-operator-proxy-webhook:v0.60.0
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_JOB_PRUNER_TKN=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-operator-pruner-tkn:v0.60.0
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_TEKTON_PIPELINES_CONTROLLER=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-controller:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_WEBHOOK=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-webhook:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_ARG__ENTRYPOINT_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-entrypoint:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_ARG__GIT_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-git-init:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_ARG__IMAGEDIGEST_EXPORTER_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-imagedigestexporter:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_ARG__KUBECONFIG_WRITER_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-kubeconfigwriter:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_PIPELINES_ARG__NOP_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-nop:v0.37.2
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_TRIGGERS_TEKTON_TRIGGERS_CONTROLLER=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-triggers-controller:v0.20.1
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_TRIGGERS_WEBHOOK=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-triggers-webhook:v0.20.1
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_TRIGGERS_TEKTON_TRIGGERS_CORE_INTERCEPTORS=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-triggers-interceptors:v0.20.1
--set extraEnv.IMAGE_TRIGGERS_ARG__EL_IMAGE=docker.io/xxx/xxx/tekton-triggers-eventlistenersink:v0.20.1

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