Tekton is a Google-developed open-source framework for creating continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) systems. With Tekton, you may build, test, and deploy code across a variety of environments in an easy, quick, and standardized way.
Tekton is Kubernetes-native and works well with widely-adopted CI/CD solutions, such as Jenkins/Jenkins X, Skaffold, and Knative. It is flexible, and supports many advanced CI/CD patterns, including rolling, blue/green, and canary deployment.
This playground features a single-node Kubernetes cluster with Tekton installed, so that you can experiment, explore, and learn about Tekton as you see fit. The following components are available:
- Tekton pipelines
- Tekton triggers
- Tekton dashboard
- Tekton CLI
Additionally, the Kubernetes cluster includes:
- A Persistent Volume for running Tekton
- Volumes for mounting the Docker socket and storage from the playground environment into your Tekton pipelines
Congratulations
If you would like to learn more about Tekton, visit tekton.dev.
For more Tekton interactive tutorials, see try.tekton.dev.

Steps
Tekton Playground
Notes
Katacoda is now starting your experimental Kubernetes cluster and configuring Tekton. It may take a few moments to complete.
Check installation progress
Run kubectl cluster-info
to check if the Kubernetes cluster has
been started. You should see the addresses of your Kubernetes cluster master
node and DNS in the output.
Run kubectl get pods --namespace tekton-pipelines
to check if
Tekton has been installed. All 5 components listed in the output should
have the status running
.
The playground is now fully functional. For more information about Tekton, see Tekton Documentation.
Tips
CLI
Run tkn
for help and instructions.
Docker usage
If you would like to use Docker in your Tekton pipelines, mount the Docker socket and storage from the playground environment into Kubernetes with the following two Persistent Volume Claims:
dlib-vol-claim
(mount at path/var/lib/docker
)dsocket-vol-claim
(mount at path/var/run/docker.sock
)
For example, if you would like to use Docker to build an image app
in
your Tekton workflow, specify a Tekton task as follows:
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Task
metadata:
name: mytask
spec:
inputs:
...
steps:
- name: docker
image: docker
command:
- docker
args:
...
volumeMounts:
- name: dsocket
mountPath: /var/run/docker.sock
- name: dlib
mountPath: /var/lib/docker
volumes:
- name: dsocket
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: dsocket-vol-claim
- name: dlib
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: dlib-vol-claim