PipelineResources

PipelineResources in a pipeline are the set of objects that are going to be used as inputs to a Task and can be output by a Task.

A Task can have multiple inputs and outputs.

For example:

A Task's input could be a GitHub source which contains your application code.
A Task's output can be your application container image which can be then deployed in a cluster.
A Task's output can be a jar file to be uploaded to a storage bucket.

Syntax
Resource types
Using Resources

Syntax

To define a configuration file for a PipelineResource, you can specify the following fields:

Required:
- apiVersion - Specifies the API version, for example tekton.dev/v1alpha1.
- kind - Specify the PipelineResource resource object.
- metadata - Specifies data to uniquely identify the PipelineResource object, for example a name.
- spec - Specifies the configuration information for your PipelineResource resource object.
- type - Specifies the type of the PipelineResource
Optional:
- params - Parameters which are specific to each type of PipelineResource

Using Resources

Resources can be used in Tasks and Conditions.

Input resources, like source code (git) or artifacts, are dumped at path /workspace/task_resource_name within a mounted volume and are available to all steps of your Task. The path that the resources are mounted at can be overridden with the targetPath field. Steps can use the pathvariable substitution key to refer to the local path to the mounted resource.

Variable substitution

Task and Condition specs can refer resource params as well as pre-defined variables such as path using the variable substitution syntax below where <name> is the resource's name and <key> is one of the resource's params:

In Task Spec:

For an input resource in a Task spec:

$(inputs.resources.<name>.<key>)

Or for an output resource:

$(outputs.resources.<name>.<key>)

In Condition Spec:

Input resources can be accessed by:

$(resources.<name>.<key>)

Accessing local path to resource

The path key is pre-defined and refers to the local path to a resource on the mounted volume

$(inputs.resources.<name>.path)

Controlling where resources are mounted

The optional field targetPath can be used to initialize a resource in a specific directory. If targetPath is set, the resource will be initialized under /workspace/targetPath. If targetPath is not specified, the resource will be initialized under /workspace. The following example demonstrates how git input repository could be initialized in $GOPATH to run tests:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: task-with-input
  namespace: default
spec:
  inputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        type: git
        targetPath: go/src/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
  steps:
    - name: unit-tests
      image: golang
      command: ["go"]
      args:
        - "test"
        - "./..."
      workingDir: "/workspace/go/src/github.com/tektoncd/pipeline"
      env:
        - name: GOPATH
          value: /workspace/go

Overriding where resources are copied from

When specifying input and output PipelineResources, you can optionally specify paths for each resource. paths will be used by TaskRun as the resource's new source paths i.e., copy the resource from a specified list of paths. TaskRun expects the folder and contents to be already present in specified paths. The paths feature could be used to provide extra files or altered version of existing resources before the execution of steps.

The output resource includes the name and reference to the pipeline resource and optionally paths. paths will be used by TaskRun as the resource's new destination paths i.e., copy the resource entirely to specified paths. TaskRun will be responsible for the creation of required directories and content transition. The paths feature could be used to inspect the results of TaskRun after the execution of steps.

paths feature for input and output resources is heavily used to pass the same version of resources across tasks in context of PipelineRun.

In the following example, Task and TaskRun are defined with an input resource, output resource and step, which builds a war artifact. After the execution of TaskRun(volume-taskrun), custom volume will have the entire resource java-git-resource (including the war artifact) copied to the destination path /custom/workspace/.

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: volume-task
  namespace: default
spec:
  inputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        type: git
  outputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
  steps:
    - name: build-war
      image: objectuser/run-java-jar #https://hub.docker.com/r/objectuser/run-java-jar/
      command: jar
      args: ["-cvf", "projectname.war", "*"]
      volumeMounts:
        - name: custom-volume
          mountPath: /custom

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: volume-taskrun
  namespace: default
spec:
  taskRef:
    name: volume-task
  inputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        resourceRef:
          name: java-git-resource
  outputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        paths:
          - /custom/workspace/
        resourceRef:
          name: java-git-resource
  volumes:
    - name: custom-volume
      emptyDir: {}

Resource Status

When resources are bound inside a TaskRun, they can include extra information in the TaskRun Status.ResourcesResult field. This information can be useful for auditing the exact resources used by a TaskRun later. Currently the Image and Git resources use this mechanism.

For an example of what this output looks like:

resourcesResult:
- key: digest
  value: sha256:a08412a4164b85ae521b0c00cf328e3aab30ba94a526821367534b81e51cb1cb
  resourceRef:
    name: skaffold-image-leeroy-web

Resource Types

Git Resource

The git resource represents a git repository, that contains the source code to be built by the pipeline. Adding the git resource as an input to a Task will clone this repository and allow the Task to perform the required actions on the contents of the repo.

To create a git resource using the PipelineResource CRD:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: wizzbang-git
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: git
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://github.com/wizzbangcorp/wizzbang.git
    - name: revision
      value: master

Params that can be added are the following:

url: represents the location of the git repository, you can use this to change the repo, e.g. to use a fork
revision: Git revision (branch, tag, commit SHA or ref) to clone. You can use this to control what commit or branch is used. If no revision is specified, the resource will default to latest from master.

When used as an input, the Git resource includes the exact commit fetched in the resourceResults section of the taskRun's status object:

resourceResults:
- key: commit
  value: 6ed7aad5e8a36052ee5f6079fc91368e362121f7
  resourceRef:
    name: skaffold-git

Using a fork

The Url parameter can be used to point at any git repository, for example to use a GitHub fork at master:

spec:
  type: git
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://github.com/bobcatfish/wizzbang.git

Using a branch

The revision can be any git commit-ish (revision). You can use this to create a git PipelineResource that points at a branch, for example:

spec:
  type: git
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://github.com/wizzbangcorp/wizzbang.git
    - name: revision
      value: some_awesome_feature

To point at a pull request, you can use the pull requests's branch:

spec:
  type: git
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://github.com/wizzbangcorp/wizzbang.git
    - name: revision
      value: refs/pull/52525/head

Pull Request Resource

The pullRequest resource represents a pull request event from a source control system.

Adding the Pull Request resource as an input to a Task will populate the workspace with a set of files containing generic pull request related metadata such as base/head commit, comments, and labels.

The payloads will also contain links to raw service-specific payloads where appropriate.

Adding the Pull Request resource as an output of a Task will update the source control system with any changes made to the pull request resource during the pipeline.

Example file structure:

/workspace/
/workspace/<resource>/
/workspace/<resource>/labels/
/workspace/<resource>/labels/<label>
/workspace/<resource>/status/
/workspace/<resource>/status/<status>
/workspace/<resource>/comments/
/workspace/<resource>/comments/<comment>
/workspace/<resource>/head
/workspace/<resource>/base

More details:

Labels are empty files, named after the desired label string.

Status is represented as a set of json files, structured like this:

{
  "ID": "foobar",
  "Description": "description",
  "URL": "https://www.example.com",
  "Code": "success" 
}

References (head and base) are a set of json files, structured like this:

{
  "Repo": "https://gitlab.com/foo/bar",
  "Branch": "master",
  "SHA": "b813c8fcb1e6245dcbe5ab3c14259fac2e75a799"
}

Comments are a set of json files, structured like this:

{
  "Text": "comment body",
  "Author": "author",
  "ID": 202131633
}

See types.go for the full payload spec.

To create a pull request resource using the PipelineResource CRD:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: wizzbang-pr
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: pullRequest
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://github.com/wizzbangcorp/wizzbang/pulls/1
  secrets:
    - fieldName: githubToken
      secretName: github-secrets
      secretKey: token
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: github-secrets
type: Opaque
data:
  token: github_personal_access_token_secret # in base64 encoded form

Params that can be added are the following:

url: represents the location of the pull request to fetch.

Statuses

The following status codes are available to use for the Pull Request resource:

Status
success
neutral
queued
in_progress
failure
unknown
error
timeout
canceled
action_required

Note: Status codes are currently case sensitive.

For more information on how Tekton Pull Request status codes convert to SCM provider statuses, see pullrequest-init/README.md.

GitHub

The pullRequest resource will look for GitHub OAuth authentication tokens in spec secrets with a field name called githubToken.

URLs should be of the form: tektoncd#1

Image Resource

An image resource represents an image that lives in a remote repository. It is usually used as a Task output for Tasks that build images. This allows the same Tasks to be used to generically push to any registry.

Params that can be added are the following:

url: The complete path to the image, including the registry and the image tag
digest: The image digest which uniquely identifies a particular build of an image with a particular tag. While this can be provided as a parameter, there is not yet a way to update this value after an image is built, but this is planned in #216.

For example:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: kritis-resources-image
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: image
  params:
    - name: url
      value: gcr.io/staging-images/kritis

Surfacing the image digest built in a task

To surface the image digest in the output of the taskRun the builder tool should produce this information in a OCI Image Spec index.json file. This file should be placed on a location as specified in the task definition under the default resource directory, or the specified targetPath. If there is only one image in the index.json file, the digest of that image is exported; otherwise, the digest of the whole image index would be exported. For example this build-push task defines the outputImageDir for the builtImage resource in /workspace/buildImage

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: build-push
spec:
  inputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        type: git
  outputs:
    resources:
      - name: builtImage
        type: image
        targetPath: /workspace/builtImage
  steps: ...

If no value is specified for targetPath, it will default to /workspace/output/{resource-name}.

Please check the builder tool used on how to pass this path to create the output file.

The taskRun will include the image digest in the resourcesResult field that is part of the taskRun.Status

for example:

status:
    ...
    resourcesResult:
    - digest: sha256:eed29cd0b6feeb1a92bc3c4f977fd203c63b376a638731c88cacefe3adb1c660
      name: skaffold-image-leeroy-web
    ...

If the index.json file is not produced, the image digest will not be included in the taskRun output.

Cluster Resource

A cluster resource represents a Kubernetes cluster other than the current cluster Tekton Pipelines is running on. A common use case for this resource is to deploy your application/function on different clusters.

The resource will use the provided parameters to create a kubeconfig file that can be used by other steps in the pipeline Task to access the target cluster. The kubeconfig will be placed in /workspace/<your-cluster-name>/kubeconfig on your Task container

The Cluster resource has the following parameters:

name (required): The name to be given to the target cluster, will be used in the kubeconfig and also as part of the path to the kubeconfig file
url (required): Host url of the master node
username (required): the user with access to the cluster
password: to be used for clusters with basic auth
namespace: The namespace to target in the cluster
token: to be used for authentication, if present will be used ahead of the password
insecure: to indicate server should be accessed without verifying the TLS certificate.
cadata (required): holds PEM-encoded bytes (typically read from a root certificates bundle).

Note: Since only one authentication technique is allowed per user, either a token or a password should be provided, if both are provided, the password will be ignored.

The following example shows the syntax and structure of a cluster resource:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: test-cluster
spec:
  type: cluster
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://10.10.10.10 # url to the cluster master node
    - name: cadata
      value: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJ.....
    - name: token
      value: ZXlKaGJHY2lPaU....

For added security, you can add the sensitive information in a Kubernetes Secret and populate the kubeconfig from them.

For example, create a secret like the following example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: target-cluster-secrets
data:
  cadatakey: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUSUZ......tLQo=
  tokenkey: ZXlKaGJHY2lPaUpTVXpJMU5pSXNJbX....M2ZiCg==

and then apply secrets to the cluster resource

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: test-cluster
spec:
  type: cluster
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://10.10.10.10
    - name: username
      value: admin
  secrets:
    - fieldName: token
      secretKey: tokenKey
      secretName: target-cluster-secrets
    - fieldName: cadata
      secretKey: cadataKey
      secretName: target-cluster-secrets

Example usage of the cluster resource in a Task, using variable substitution:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: deploy-image
  namespace: default
spec:
  inputs:
    resources:
      - name: workspace
        type: git
      - name: dockerimage
        type: image
      - name: testcluster
        type: cluster
  steps:
    - name: deploy
      image: image-with-kubectl
      command: ["bash"]
      args:
        - "-c"
        - kubectl --kubeconfig
          /workspace/$(inputs.resources.testCluster.name)/kubeconfig --context
          $(inputs.resources.testCluster.name) apply -f /workspace/service.yaml'

To use the cluster resource with Google Kubernetes Engine, you should use the cadata authentication mechanism.

To determine the caData, you can use the following gcloud commands:

gcloud container clusters describe <cluster-name> --format='value(masterAuth.clusterCaCertificate)'

To create a secret with this information, you can use:

CADATA=$(gcloud container clusters describe <cluster-name> --format='value(masterAuth.clusterCaCertificate)')
kubectl create secret generic cluster-ca-data --from-literal=cadata=$CADATA

To retrieve the URL, you can use this gcloud command:

gcloud container clusters describe <cluster-name> --format='value(endpoint)'

Then to use these in a resource, reference the cadata from the secret you created above, and use the IP address from the gcloud command as your url (prefixed with https://):

spec:
  type: cluster
  params:
    - name: url
      value: https://<ip address determined above>
    - name: name
      value: mycluster
  secrets:
    - fieldName: cadata
      secretName: cluster-ca-data
      secretKey: cadata

Storage Resource

The storage resource represents blob storage, that contains either an object or directory. Adding the storage resource as an input to a Task will download the blob and allow the Task to perform the required actions on the contents of the blob.

Only blob storage type Google Cloud Storage(gcs) is supported as of now via GCS storage resource and BuildGCS storage resource.

GCS Storage Resource

The gcs storage resource points to Google Cloud Storage blob.

To create a GCS type of storage resource using the PipelineResource CRD:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: wizzbang-storage
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: storage
  params:
    - name: type
      value: gcs
    - name: location
      value: gs://some-bucket
    - name: dir
      value: "y" # This can have any value to be considered "true"

Params that can be added are the following:

location: represents the location of the blob storage.
type: represents the type of blob storage. For GCS storage resource this value should be set to gcs.
dir: represents whether the blob storage is a directory or not. By default a storage artifact is not considered a directory.
- If the artifact is a directory then -r(recursive) flag is used, to copy all files under the source directory to a GCS bucket. Eg: gsutil cp -r source_dir/* gs://some-bucket
- If an artifact is a single file like a zip or tar, then the copy will be only 1 level deep(not recursive). It will not trigger a copy of sub directories in the source directory. Eg: gsutil cp source.tar gs://some-bucket.tar.

Private buckets can also be configured as storage resources. To access GCS private buckets, service accounts with correct permissions are required. The secrets field on the storage resource is used for configuring this information. Below is an example on how to create a storage resource with a service account.

Refer to the official documentation on how to create service accounts and configuring IAM permissions to access buckets.

Create a Kubernetes secret from a downloaded service account json key

kubectl create secret generic bucket-sa --from-file=./service_account.json

To access the GCS private bucket environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS should be set, so apply the above created secret to the GCS storage resource under the fieldName key.

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: wizzbang-storage
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: storage
  params:
    - name: type
      value: gcs
    - name: location
      value: gs://some-private-bucket
    - name: dir
      value: "y"
  secrets:
    - fieldName: GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
      secretName: bucket-sa
      secretKey: service_account.json

BuildGCS Storage Resource

The build-gcs storage resource points to a Google Cloud Storage blob like GCS Storage Resource, either in the form of a .zip archive, or based on the contents of a source manifest file.

In addition to fetching an .zip archive, BuildGCS also unzips it.

A Source Manifest File is a JSON object, which is listing other objects in a Cloud Storage that should be fetched. The format of the manifest is a mapping of the destination file path to the location in a Cloud Storage, where the file's contents can be found. The build-gcs resource can also do incremental uploads of sources via the Source Manifest File.

To create a build-gcs type of storage resource using the PipelineResource CRD:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: build-gcs-storage
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: storage
  params:
    - name: type
      value: build-gcs
    - name: location
      value: gs://build-crd-tests/rules_docker-master.zip
    - name: artifactType
      value: Archive

Params that can be added are the following:

location: represents the location of the blob storage.
type: represents the type of blob storage. For BuildGCS, this value should be set to build-gcs
artifactType: represent the type of gcs resource. Right now, we support following types:

ZipArchive:
- ZipArchive indicates that the resource fetched is an archive file in the zip format.
- It unzips the archive and places all the files in the directory, which is set at runtime.
- Archive is also supported and is equivalent to ZipArchive, but is deprecated.
TarGzArchive:
- TarGzArchive indicates that the resource fetched is a gzipped archive file in the tar format.
- It unzips the archive and places all the files in the directory, which is set at runtime.
Manifest:
- Manifest indicates that the resource should be fetched using a source manifest file.

Private buckets other than the ones accessible by a TaskRun Service Account can not be configured as storage resources for the build-gcs storage resource right now. This is because the container image gcr.io/cloud-builders//gcs-fetcher does not support configuring secrets.

Cloud Event Resource

The cloudevent resource represents a cloud event that is sent to a target URI upon completion of a TaskRun. The cloudevent resource sends Tekton specific events; the body of the event includes the entire TaskRun spec plus status; the types of events defined for now are:

dev.tekton.event.task.unknown
dev.tekton.event.task.successful
dev.tekton.event.task.failed

cloudevent resources are useful to notify a third party upon the completion and status of a TaskRun. In combinations with the Tekton triggers project they can be used to link Task/PipelineRuns asynchronously.

To create a CloudEvent resource using the PipelineResource CRD:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: PipelineResource
metadata:
  name: event-to-sink
spec:
  type: cloudevent
  params:
  - name: targetURI
    value: http://sink:8080

The content of an event is for example:

Context Attributes,
  SpecVersion: 0.2
  Type: dev.tekton.event.task.successful
  Source: /apis/tekton.dev/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/taskruns/pipeline-run-api-16aa55-source-to-image-task-rpndl
  ID: pipeline-run-api-16aa55-source-to-image-task-rpndl
  Time: 2019-07-04T11:03:53.058694712Z
  ContentType: application/json
Transport Context,
  URI: /
  Host: my-sink.default.my-cluster.containers.appdomain.cloud
  Method: POST
Data,
  {
    "taskRun": {
      "metadata": {...}
      "spec": {
        "inputs": {...}
        "outputs": {...}
        "serviceAccount": "default",
        "taskRef": {
          "name": "source-to-image",
          "kind": "Task"
        },
        "timeout": "1h0m0s"
      },
      "status": {...}
    }
  }

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Using Resources

Variable substitution

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Accessing local path to resource

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Overriding where resources are copied from

Resource Status

Resource Types

Git Resource

Using a fork

Using a branch

Pull Request Resource

Statuses

GitHub

Image Resource

Surfacing the image digest built in a task

Cluster Resource

Storage Resource

GCS Storage Resource

BuildGCS Storage Resource

Cloud Event Resource