Setting Up Tekton Triggers

Follow the steps below to set up an official release of Tekton Triggers on your Kubernetes cluster. If you want to test Triggers from HEAD, see the Tekton Developer Guide.

Prerequisites

You must satisfy the following prerequisties to set up Tekton Triggers:

  • You must have a Kubernetes Cluster running Kubernetes 1.18 or above.

    You can use kind to quickly create a local cluster with RBAC enabled for testing purposes:

  • You must have Tekton Pipelines installed on your Kubernetes cluster.

    For instructions, see Installing Tekton Pipelines.

  • You must grant the cluster-admin privilege to the user with which you installed Tekton Pipelines.

    For instructions, see Role-based access control.

Installing Tekton Triggers on Your Cluster

  1. Log on to your Kubernetes cluster as the user with which you installed Tekton Pipelines.

  2. Use the kubectl apply command to install the latest release of Tekton Triggers and its dependencies:

    kubectl apply --filename https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/triggers/latest/release.yaml

    To install a specific release of Tekton Triggers, replace latest with the desired version number as shown in the following example:

    kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/triggers/previous/v0.1.0/release.yaml

    To install a nightly release, use the following command:

    kubectl apply --filename https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases-nightly/triggers/latest/release.yaml

  3. Monitor the installation using the kubectl get command:

    kubectl get pods --namespace tekton-pipelines --watch

  4. When all Tekton Triggers components report a status of Running press CTRL+C to stop monitoring.

You are now ready to configure Tekton Triggers for your workflow. For instructions, see the following: