Tekton

Tekton is an open source framework for building CI/CD systems on Kubernetes. It gives you standard building blocks for build, test and deploy steps.

Tekton runs pipelines as Kubernetes resources, so each step runs in a container inside your cluster. It is designed to work across cloud providers and on-premise systems, and it works alongside other CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Skaffold and Knative. The project publishes regular releases with tracing, security and reliability updates.

• Pipelines defined as Kubernetes resources
• Steps run in containers inside your cluster
• Works across cloud and on-premise systems
• OpenTelemetry tracing support
• Regular releases with security updates

Platform engineers and teams that already run Kubernetes and want their CI/CD system to run there too. It also suits organisations that want a framework to build their own delivery tooling rather than a fixed product.

Tekton is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence and is free to use. It is a framework, so you assemble and maintain the pipelines, tasks and tooling yourself. A community project of this kind depends on contributors, so check the release notes before you upgrade a production cluster.