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Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native CI/CD experience based on the Tekton project which provides:

  • Standard Kubernetes-native pipeline definitions (CRDs).

  • Serverless pipelines with no CI server management overhead.

  • Extensibility to build images using any Kubernetes tool, such as S2I, Buildah, JIB, and Kaniko.

  • Portability across any Kubernetes distribution.

  • Powerful CLI for interacting with pipelines.

  • Integrated user experience with the Developer perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console.

For an overview of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, see Understanding OpenShift Pipelines.

Compatibility and support matrix

Some features in this release are currently in Technology Preview. These experimental features are not intended for production use.

In the table, features are marked with the following statuses:

TP

Technology Preview

GA

General Availability

Table 1. Compatibility and support matrix
Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Version Component Version OpenShift Version Support Status

Operator

Pipelines

Triggers

CLI

Chains

Hub

Pipelines as Code

Results

1.14

0.56.x

0.26.x

0.35.x

0.20.x (GA)

1.16.x (TP)

0.24.x (GA)

0.9.x (TP)

4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15

GA

1.13

0.53.x

0.25.x

0.33.x

0.19.x (GA)

1.15.x (TP)

0.22.x (GA)

0.8.x (TP)

4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15

GA

1.12

0.50.x

0.25.x

0.32.x

0.17.x (GA)

1.14.x (TP)

0.21.x (GA)

0.8.x (TP)

4.12, 4.13, 4.14

GA

1.11

0.47.x

0.24.x

0.31.x

0.16.x (GA)

1.13.x (TP)

0.19.x (GA)

0.6.x (TP)

4.12, 4.13, 4.14

GA

1.10

0.44.x

0.23.x

0.30.x

0.15.x (TP)

1.12.x (TP)

0.17.x (GA)

NA

4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13

GA

1.9

0.41.x

0.22.x

0.28.x

0.13.x (TP)

1.11.x (TP)

0.15.x (GA)

NA

4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13

GA

1.8

0.37.x

0.20.x

0.24.x

0.9.0 (TP)

1.8.x (TP)

0.10.x (TP)

NA

4.10, 4.11, 4.12

GA

1.7

0.33.x

0.19.x

0.23.x

0.8.0 (TP)

1.7.0 (TP)

0.5.x (TP)

NA

4.9, 4.10, 4.11

GA

1.6

0.28.x

0.16.x

0.21.x

NA

NA

NA

NA

4.9

GA

1.5

0.24.x

0.14.x (TP)

0.19.x

NA

NA

NA

NA

4.8

GA

1.4

0.22.x

0.12.x (TP)

0.17.x

NA

NA

NA

NA

4.7

GA

For questions and feedback, you can send an email to the product team at pipelines-interest@redhat.com.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. We are beginning with these four terms: master, slave, blacklist, and whitelist. Because of the enormity of this endeavor, these changes will be implemented gradually over several upcoming releases. For more details, see our CTO Chris Wright’s message.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.14

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.14 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

New features

In addition to fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.14:

Pipelines

  • With this update, you can use a parameter of a task or pipeline or a result of a previous task to specify the name of a resource to bind to a workspace, for example, name: $(params.name)-configmap.

  • With this update, OpenShift Pipelines supports using your existing entitlements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in build processes within your pipelines. The built-in buildah cluster task can now use these entitlements.

  • With this update, if a pipeline run or task run uses the pipeline service account, you can use CSI volume types in the pipeline or task.

  • With this update, you can use a StepAction custom resource (CR) to define a reusable scripted action that you can invoke from any number of tasks. To use this feature, you must set the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.enable-step-actions spec in the TektonConfig CR to true.

  • With this update, object parameters and array results are enabled by default. You do not need to set any flags to use them.

  • With this update, you can use the HTTP resolver to fetch a pipeline or task from an HTTP URL, as shown in the following examples:

    Example usage for a task
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
    kind: TaskRun
    metadata:
      name: remote-task-reference
    spec:
      taskRef:
        resolver: http
        params:
        - name: url
          value: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tektoncd-catalog/git-clone/main/task/git-clone/git-clone.yaml
    Example usage for a pipeline
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
    kind: PipelineRun
    metadata:
      name: http-demo
    spec:
      pipelineRef:
        resolver: http
        params:
        - name: url
          value: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tektoncd/catalog/main/pipeline/build-push-gke-deploy/0.1/build-push-gke-deploy.yaml
  • With this update, you can use an enum declaration to limit the values that you can supply for a parameter of a pipeline or task, as shown in the following example. To use this feature, you must set the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.enable-param-enum spec in the TektonConfig CR to true.

    Example usage
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
    kind: Pipeline
    metadata:
      name: pipeline-param-enum
    spec:
      params:
      - name: message
        enum: ["v1", "v2"]
        default: "v1"
    # ...
  • With this update, when using the Git resolver with the authenticated source control management (SCM) API, you can override the default token, SCM type, and server URL that you configured. See the following example:

    Example usage
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
    kind: TaskRun
    metadata:
      name: git-api-demo-tr
    spec:
      taskRef:
        resolver: git
        params:
        - name: org
          value: tektoncd
        - name: repo
          value: catalog
        - name: revision
          value: main
        - name: pathInRepo
          value: task/git-clone/0.6/git-clone.yaml
        # create the my-secret-token secret in the namespace where the
        # pipelinerun is created. The secret must  contain a GitHub personal access
        # token in the token key of the secret.
        - name: token
          value: my-secret-token
        - name: tokenKey
          value: token
        - name: scmType
          value: github
        - name: serverURL
          value: https://ghe.mycompany.com
  • With this update, you can define default resource requirements for containers and init-containers in pods that OpenShift Pipelines creates when executing task runs. Use the pipeline.options.configMaps.config-defaults.default-container-resource-requirements spec in the TektonConfig CR to set these requirements. You can set the default values for all containers and also for particular containers by name or by prefix, such as sidecar-*.

Operator

  • With this update, OpenShift Pipelines supports horizontal pod autoscaling for the Operator proxy webhook. If the pod that runs the Operator proxy webhook reaches 85% CPU utilization, the autoscaler creates another replica of the pod. If you want to use more than one replica for the Operator proxy webhook at startup, you must configure this number in the options.horizontalPodAutoscalers spec of the TektonConfig CR.

  • With this update, the internal leader election for several components of OpenShift Pipelines was improved. The Operator controller, Operator webhook, proxy webhook, Pipelines as Code watcher, Pipelines as Code webhook, and the Tekton Chains controller now use separate leader election ConfigMaps. The leader election affects which replica of a component processes a request.

  • Before this update, when you scaled up the number of replicas of the OpenShift Pipelines controller, manual intervention was required to enable the use of the new replicas; namely, you needed to delete leases in the leader election. With this update, when you scale up the number of replicas of the OpenShift Pipelines controller, the leader election includes the new replicas automatically, so the new replicas can process information.

  • With this update, you can optionally set the following flags in the spec.pipeline spec of the TektonConfig CR:

    • coschedule

    • enable-cel-in-whenexpression

    • enable-param-enum

    • enable-step-actions

    • enforce-nonfalsifiability

    • keep-pod-on-cancel

    • max-result-size

    • metrics.count.enable-reason

    • results-from

    • set-security-context

    • default-resolver-type

Triggers

  • With this update, when specifying CEL expressions for the Triggers interceptor, you can use the first and last functions to access values in a JSON array.

  • With this update, when specifying CEL expressions for the Triggers interceptor, you can use the translate function that facilitates the utilization of regular expressions to replace characters with specified strings, as in the following example:

    Sample use of the translate function
    ".translate("[^a-z0-9]+", "ABC")
    Sample input string
    This is $an Invalid5String
    Sample result string
    ABChisABCisABCanABCnvalid5ABCtring

Web console

  • With this update, you can enable the web console plugin for OpenShift Pipelines. If you enable the plugin, you can view pipeline and task execution statistics in the Pipelines overview page and in the page of a pipeline. You must install Tekton Results to view this information.

    To use the web console plugin for OpenShift Pipelines, you must use, at a minimum, the following OpenShift Container Platform releases:

    • For OpenShift Container Platform version 4.12: 4.12.51

    • For OpenShift Container Platform version 4.13: 4.13.34

    • For OpenShift Container Platform version 4.14: 4.14.13

    • For OpenShift Container Platform version 4.15: any release

  • With this update, if you are using OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 and you enabled the console plugin, you can view archive information about past pipeline runs and task runs. Tekton Results provides this information.

  • With this update, the PipelineRun details page, accessible from both the Developer or Administrator perspective of the web console, introduces a Vulnerabilities row. This new row offers a visual representation of identified vulnerabilities, categorized by severity (critical, high, medium, and low). To enable this feature, update your tasks and associated pipelines to the specified format. Additionally, once enabled, you can also access the information about identified vulnerabilities through the Vulnerabilities column in the pipeline run list view page.

  • With this update, the PipelineRun details page, accessible from both the Developer or Administrator perspective of the web console, provides an option to download or view Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for enhanced transparency and control. To enable this feature, update your tasks and associated pipelines to the specified format.

CLI

  • With this update, the tkn version command displays the version of the Tekton Hub component if this component is installed.

  • With this update, you can use the tkn customrun list command to list custom runs.

  • With this update, when using the tkn task start command, you can specify a URL for an OCI image in the -i or --image argument. The command pulls the image and runs the specified task from this image.

  • With this update, the opc version command displays the version of the Tekton Results CLI component, which is a part of the opc utility.

Pipelines as Code

  • With this update, when using Pipelines as Code, you can specify the pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/pipeline annotation on a pipeline run to fetch the pipeline from a Tekton Hub instance. The value of this annotation must refer to a single pipeline on Tekton Hub.

  • With this update, you can deploy an additional Pipelines as Code controller with different configuration settings and different secrets. You can use multiple Pipelines as Code controllers to interact with multiple GitHub instances.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code includes metrics publication for the GitLab and BitBucket providers. You can access the metrics using the /metrics path on the Pipelines as Code controller and watcher service, port 9090.

  • With this update, when specifying the conditions for executing a pipeline run using a CEL expression with pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/on-cel-expression , you can check for existence of files in the Git repository:

    • files.all.exists(x, x.matches('<path_or_regular_expression>')) for all files

    • files.added.exists(x, x.matches('<path_or_regular_expression>')) for files that were added since the last run of this pipeline

    • files.modified.exists(x, x.matches('<path_or_regular_expression>')) for files that were modified since the last run of this pipeline

    • files.deleted.exists(x, x.matches('<path_or_regular_expression>')) for files that were deleted since the last run of this pipeline

    • files.renamed.exists(x, x.matches('<path_or_regular_expression>')) for files that were renamed since the last run of this pipeline; this expression checks the new names of the renamed files

Tekton Chains

  • With this update, Tekton Chains supports the v1 value of the API version.

  • With this update, you can set the artifacts.pipelinerun.enable-deep-inspection parameter in the TektonConfig CR. When this parameter is true, Tekton Chains records the results of the child task runs of a pipeline run. When this parameter is false, Tekton Chains records the results of the pipeline run but not of its child task runs.

  • With this update, you can set the builddefinition.buildtype parameter in the TektonConfig CR to set the build type for in-toto attestation. When this parameter is https://tekton.dev/chains/v2/slsa, Tekton Chains records in-toto attestations in strict conformance with the SLSA v1.0 specification. When this parameter is https://tekton.dev/chains/v2/slsa-tekton, Tekton Chains records in-toto attestations with additional information such as the labels and annotations in each task run and pipeline run, and also adds each task in a pipeline run under resolvedDependencies.

  • Before this update, when Tekton Chains was configured to use gcs storage, Tekton Chains did not record pipeline run information. With this update, Tekton Chains records pipeline run information with this storage.

  • With this update, performance metrics are available for Tekton Chains. To access the metrics, expose the tekton-chains-metrics service and then use the /metrics path on this service, port 9090. These metrics are also available in the OpenShift Container Platform Monitoring stack.

  • With this update, Tekton Chains uses the new v2alpha3 record format version when recording pipeline runs and task runs that use the v1 version value.

  • With this update, Tekton Chains uses the v1 version of pipeline run and task run formats internally.

Tekton Results

  • With this update, if Tekton Results is installed, Tekton Results records the summary and record data for pipeline runs started using Pipelines as Code.

  • With this update, Tekton Results provides up to 100 megabytes of logging information for a pipeline or task.

  • With this update, any authenticated user can view the tekton-results-api-service route in the openshift-pipelines namespace to interact with Tekton Results using a REST API.

  • With this update, the Tekton Results API includes a new endpoint for fetching summary and aggregation for a list of records.

  • With this update, the GetLog endpoint of the Tekton Results API returns raw bytes with the text/plain content type.

  • With this update, you can optionally specify a custom CA certificate in the options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.DB_SSLROOTCERT spec in the TektonResult CR. In this case, Tekton Results requires an SSL connection to the database server and uses this certificate for the connection. If you want to use this setting, when configuring Tekton Results you must also use alternate specs for several other configuration parameters, as listed in the following table. Both the regular and the alternate parameter specs are in the TektonResult CR.

    Table 2. Alternate configuration parameters for Tekton Results
    Regular parameter spec Alternate parameter spec

    logs_api

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.LOGS_API

    log_level

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.LOG_LEVEL

    db_port

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.DB_PORT

    db_host

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.DB_HOST

    logs_path

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.LOGS_PATH

    logs_type

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.LOGS_TYPE

    logs_buffer_size

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.LOGS_BUFFER_SIZE

    auth_disable

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.AUTH_DISABLE

    db_enable_auto_migration

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.DB_ENABLE_AUTO_MIGRATION

    server_port

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.SERVER_PORT

    prometheus_port

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.PROMETHEUS_PORT

    gcs_bucket_name

    options.configMaps.tekton-results-api-config.data.config.GCS_BUCKET_NAME

    For the configuration parameters not listed in this table, use the regular specs as described in the documentation.

    Use the alternate parameter specs only if you need to use the DB_SSLROOTCERT setting.

Breaking changes

  • With this update, when using the Bundles resolver, you can no longer specify the serviceAccount parameter. Instead, you can specify the secret parameter to provide the name of a secret containing authentication information for the registry. You must update any tasks or pipelines that use the serviceAccount parameter of the Bundles resolver to use the secret parameter instead. The pipeline.bundles-resolver-config.default-service-account spec in the TektonConfig CR is no longer supported.

Known issues

  • The tkn pipeline logs -f command does not display the logs of tasks that were defined in a pipeline with the retries: X parameter while this pipeline is in progress.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, when using GitHub Enterprise, an incoming webhook did not work. With this update, you can use incoming webhooks with GitHub Enterprise.

  • Before this update, if a task run or pipeline run disabled timeouts, OpenShift Pipelines would run a series of rapid reconciliations on the task run or pipeline run, degrading the performance of the controller. With this update, the controller reconciles task runs and pipeline runs with disabled timeouts normally.

  • Before this update, if you used a custom namespace to install Tekton Hub, the installation deleted the openshift-pipelines namespace, removing the OpenShift Pipelines installation. With this update, you can use a custom namespace to install Tekton Hub and your OpenShift Pipelines installation is unaffected

  • Before this update, when using Pipelines as Code with GitLab, if the user triggered a pipeline run by using a comment in a merge request such as /test, Pipelines as Code did not report the status of the pipeline run on the merge request. With this update, Pipelines as Code correctly reports the status of the pipeline run on the merge request.

  • Before this update, when using CEL filtering in Tekton Results with subgroups, as shown in the following example, the subgroups did not work correctly. With this update, subgroups work correctly.

    Example CEL filter with a subgroup
    "data_type==TASK_RUN && (data.spec.pipelineSpec.tasks[0].name=='hello'||data.metadata.name=='hello')"
  • Before this update, when a pipeline run was cancelled, Tekton Results did not record the logs of this pipeline run. With this update, Tekton Results records the logs of a cancelled pipeline run.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.14.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.14.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, when using multiple Pipelines as Code controllers configured with different GitHub apps, the Pipelines as Code watcher component crashed with a nilerror message. With this update, Pipelines as Code functions normally with multiple controllers configured with different GitHub apps.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.13

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.13 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

New features

In addition to fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.13:

Before upgrading to the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.13, ensure that you installed at least the OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.19 or 4.13.1 version on your cluster.

Pipelines

  • Before this update, the Source-to-Image (S2I) cluster tasks used a base S2I container image that was in Technology Preview. With this update, the S2I cluster tasks used a base S2I container image that is released and fully supported.

  • With this update, optionally, you can enable a setting so that, when a task run is cancelled, OpenShift Pipelines stops the pod for the task run but does not delete the pod. To enable this setting, in the TektonConfig custom resource (CR) set the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.keep-pod-on-cancel spec to true and the pipeline.enable-api-fields spec to alpha.

  • Before this update, you had to enable alpha features in order to set compute resource limits on the task level. With this update, you can use the computeResources spec for a TaskRun CR to set the resource limits for a task.

  • With this update, when specifying a task and using the displayName parameter, you can use parameters that include the values of parameters, results, or context variables in the display name, for example, $(params.application), $(tasks.scan.results.report), $(context.pipeline.name).

  • With this update, when specifying a remote pipeline or task using the hub resolver, in the version parameter you can use inequation constraints such as >=0.2.0,< 1.0.0.

  • With this update, when specifying a task you can use a Common Expression Language (CEL) expression in the when expression. To use this feature, you must set the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.enable-cel-in-whenexpression spec to true in the TektonConfig CR.

  • With this update, when specifying a pipeline in a PipelineRun CR spec, you can reference the results produced by an inline task in a subsequent inline task.

    Example usage
      apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
      kind: Task
      metadata:
        name: uid-task
      spec:
        results:
          - name: uid
        steps:
          - name: uid
            image: alpine
            command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
            args:
              - echo "1001" | tee $(results.uid.path)
      ---
      apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
      kind: PipelineRun
      metadata:
        name: uid-pipeline-run
      spec:
        pipelineSpec:
          tasks:
          - name: add-uid
            taskRef:
              name: uid-task
          - name: show-uid
            taskSpec:
              steps:
                - name: show-uid
                  image: alpine
                  command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
                  args:
                    - echo $(tasks.add-uid.results.uid)
  • With this update, when configuring the cluster resolver, you can set the value of the blocked-namespaces parameter to *. With this setting, only the namespaces listed in the allowed-namespaces parameter are allowed and all other namespaces are blocked.

Operator

  • With this update, the disable-affinity-assistant feature flag has been deprecated and might be removed in a future release. Instead, in the TektonConfig CR, you can set the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.coschedule spec to one of the following values:

    • workspaces: OpenShift Pipelines schedules all task runs that share the same workspace to the same node if the workspace allocates a persistent volume claim. This is the default setting.

    • pipelineruns: OpenShift Pipelines schedules all task runs in a pipeline run to the same node.

    • isolate-pipelinerun: OpenShift Pipelines schedules all task runs in a pipeline run to the same node and allows only one pipeline run to run on a node at the same time. This setting might delay pipeline runs if all nodes are used for other pipeline runs.

    • disabled: OpenShift Pipelines does not apply any specific policy about alocating task runs to nodes.

Triggers

  • Before this update, the core interceptor always created TLS secrets when starting. With this update, the core interceptor creates TLS secrets if a TLS secret is not present on the cluster or when a certificate in the existing secret has expired.

CLI

  • With this update, when you use the tkn bundle push command, the bundle is created with the creation time set to 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z (Unix epoch time). This change ensures that bundle images created from the same source are always identical. You can use the --ctime parameter to set the creation time in the RFC3339 format. You can also use the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable to set the creation time.

Pipelines as Code

  • With this update, in Pipelines as Code, when using a CEL expression for advanced event matching (pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/on-cel-expression), you can use the header and body fields to access the full payload that is passed by the Git repository provider body. You can use this feature to filter events by any information that the Git repository sends.

    Using the header and body of the payload in CEL expressions for event matching is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

    For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, when a Pipelines as Code pipeline run is triggered by a push event, you can use /test, /test branch:<branchname>, /retest, /retest branch:<branchname>, /cancel, and /cancel branch:<branchname> commands on the corresponding commit comment to re-run or cancel the pipeline run.

  • With this update, when using Pipelines as Code, you can use remote tasks on remote pipelines. Therefore, you can reuse a complete remote pipeline across multiple repositories. You can override tasks from the remote pipeline by adding a task with the same name.

    Using remote tasks on remote pipelines and overriding tasks is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

    For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, when using Pipelines as Code, you can view improved information about CI pipeline runs in the Git repository provider. This information includes the namespace and the associated pipeline run.

Breaking changes

  • Before this update, in Pipelines as Code, when using a policy group, users who were not a part of policy groups and not allowed explicitly but allowed to run the CI (via org ownership or otherwise) could sometimes execute pipeline runs by creating events such as pull requests or by entering commands such as ok_to_test. With this update, if policy groups are configured, only users that are added to the required policy groups can execute pipeline runs, and users that are a part of the owner organization but not configured in policy groups cannot execute pipeline runs.

Known issues

  • To enable keeping pods when a task run is cancelled, along with setting the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.keep-pod-on-cancel spec to true in the TektonConfig CR, you also need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields spec to alpha in the TektonConfig CR.

  • If you enable keeping pods when a task run is cancelled, when a task run is cancelled because of a default timeout or because you set a timeput in the pipeline specification, OpenShift Pipelines deletes the pod.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, a secret that a pipeline run uses for Git authentication could be deleted from the cluster during a cleanup. With this update, a secret is deleted only when all pipeline runs that use it are deleted.

  • Before this update, in cases where multiple secrets shared the same prefix and were logged using the git interface, sometimes the concealing process started with a shorter secret, and a part of a longer secret could be displayed in the logs. With this update, when concealing secrets in logs, the process now starts from the longest secret, ensuring that no part of any secret is displayed in the logs.

  • Before this update, if you specified a results spec for a pipeline, the pipeline run could wrongly fail with a mismatched types error. With this update, if you specify a results spec for a pipeline, the results provided by the pipeline are correctly processed.

  • Before this update, when Tekton Chains was configured with KMS as Hashicorp Vault, the pod started crashing if there was an underlying error while connecting to Vault. This has now been fixed and the error is now recorded in the Tekton Chains controller log.

  • Before this update, when using Tekton Chains, if you configured the storage.oci.repository parameter, errors were reported in the Tekton Chains controller log. With this update, the storage.oci.repository parameter is processed correctly.

  • Before this update, when Tekton Chains was configured with the Hashicorp Vault KMS and there was an issue with the connection to Vault, the Tekton Chains controller pod could crash. With this update, the errors are processed and logged on the Tekton Chains controller log.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.13.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.13.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, a task run sometimes failed with a cannot stop the sidecar error message. With this update, the race condition between controllers that caused this failure is fixed.

  • Before this update, to enable keeping pods when a task run is cancelled, along with setting the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.keep-pod-on-cancel spec to true in the TektonConfig CR, you also need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields spec to alpha in the TektonConfig CR. With this update, setting the pipeline.options.configMaps.feature-flags.data.keep-pod-on-cancel spec to true in the TektonConfig CR enables keeping pods when a task run is cancelled, and no additional setting is necessary.

  • Before this update, if you defined a sidecar for a task, OpenShift Pipelines did not validate the container image in the definition when creating the Task and TaskRun custom resources (CRs). At run time, a sidecar with an invalid container image caused the task run to fail. With this update, OpenShift Pipelines validates the container image in the sidecar definition when creating the Task and TaskRun CRs.

  • Before this update, the OpenShift Pipelines controller sometimes crashed when the task was evaluating parameters. With this update, the controller no longer crashes.

  • Before this update, if the final task in a pipeline run failed or was skipped, OpenShift Pipelines sometimes reported a validation error for the pipeline run. With this update, OpenShift Pipelines reports the status of the pipeline run correctly.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.12

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.12 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

New features

In addition to fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.12:

Before upgrading to the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.12, ensure that you have at least installed the OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.19 or 4.13.1 version on your cluster.

Pipelines

  • With this update, the web console includes a new gauge metric for pipeline runs and task runs. This metric indicates whether the underlying pods are being throttled by OpenShift Container Platform either because of resource quota policies defined in the namespace or because of resource constraints on the underlying node.

  • With this update, the new set-security-context feature flag is set to true by default, in order to enable task runs and pipeline runs to run in namespaces with restricted pod security admission policies.

  • With this update, the enable-api-fields flag is set to beta by default. You can use all features that are marked as beta in the code without further changes.

  • With this update, the results.tekton.dev/* and chains.tekton.dev/* reserved annotations are not passed from the pipeline run to the task runs that it creates.

  • Before this update, CSI volumes and projected volumes were not enabled by default. With this update, you can use CSI volumes and projected volumes in your pipelines without changing any configuration fields.

  • With this update, the isolated workspaces feature is enabled by default. You can use this feature to share a workspace with specified steps and sidecars without sharing it with the entire task run.

Operator

  • With this update, you can configure the default security context constraint (SCC) for the pods that OpenShift Pipelines creates for pipeline runs and task runs. You can set the SCC separately for different namespaces and also configure the maximum (least restrictive) SCC that can be set for any namespace.

  • With this update, a new options: heading is available under each component in the TektonConfig spec. You can use parameters under this headings to control settings for different components. In particular, you can use parameters under the platforms.openshift.pipelinesAsCode.options.configMaps.pac-config-logging.data spec to set logging levels for components of Pipelines as Code.

  • With this update, you can use the new spec.pipeline.performance.replicas parameter to set the number of replicas that are created for the OpenShift Pipelines controller pod. If you previously set the replica counts in your deployment manually, you must now use this setting to control the replica counts.

  • With this update, the Operator ensures that the stored API version remains the same throughout your deployment of OpenShift Pipelines. The stored API version in OpenShift Pipelines 1.12 is v1.

  • With this update, you can use a secret to configure S3 bucket storage to store Tekton Results logging information. When configuring S3 bucket storage, you must provide the secret with the S3 storage credentials by using the new secret_name spec in the TektonResult custom resource (CR).

Tekton Results

Tekton Results is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, you can configure Tekton Results to store data in an external PostgreSQL server.

  • With this update, you can use Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to store Tekton Results logging information. You can provide the secret with the GCS storage credentials and then provide the secret name, secret key, and bucket name in properties under the TektonResult spec. You can also use Workload Identity Federation for authentication.

  • With this update, any service account authenticated with OpenShift Pipelines can access the TektonResult CR.

  • With this update, Tekton Results includes cluster role aggregation for service accounts with admin, edit, and view roles. Cluster role binding is no longer required for these service accounts to access results and records using the Tekton Results API.

  • With this update, you can configure pruning for each PipelineRun or TaskRun resource by setting a prune-per-resource boolean field in the TektonConfig CR. You can also configure pruning for each PipelineRun or TaskRun resource in a namespace by adding the operator.tekton.dev/prune.prune-per-resource=true annotation to that namespace.

  • With this update, if there are any changes in the OpenShift Container Platform cluster-wide proxy, Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) recreates the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

  • With this update, you can disable the pruner feature by setting the value of the config.pruner.disabled field to true in the TektonConfig CR.

Triggers

  • With this update, you can configure readiness and liveness probes on Trigger CRs. You can also set the value of the failure threshold for the probes; the default value is 3.

  • With this update, OpenShift Pipelines triggers add Type and Subject values when creating a response to a Cloud Events request.

CLI

  • With this update, the tkn pipeline logs command displays the logs of a pipeline or task that is referenced using a resolver.

  • With this update, when entering the tkn bundle push command, you can use the --annotate flag to provide additional annotations.

Pipelines as Code

  • With this update, a Pipelines as Code pipeline run can include remote tasks fetched from multiple Artifact Hub or Tekton Hub instances and from different catalogs in the same hub instance.

  • With this update, you can use parameters under the platforms.openshift.pipelinesAsCode.options.configMaps.pac-config-logging.data spec in the TektonConfig CR to set logging levels for Pipelines as Code components.

  • With this update, you can set policies that allow certain actions only to members of a team and reject the actions when other users request them. Currently, the pull_request and ok_to_test actions support setting such policies.

  • With this update, you can pass arbitrary parameters in the incoming webhook as a JSON payload. OpenShift Pipelines passes these parameters to the pipeline run. To provide an additional security layer, you must explicitly define the permitted parameters in the Repository CR.

  • With this update, matching a large set of pipeline runs with a large number of remote annotations in Pipelines as Code is optimized. Pipelines as Code fetches the remote tasks only for the pipeline run that has matched.

  • With this update, you can use the source_url variable in a pipeline run template to retrieve information about the forked repository from where the event, such as a pull or push request, is triggered.

    Example usage
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
    kind: PipelineRun
    # ...
    spec:
      params:
        - name: source_url
          value: "{{ source_url }}"
      pipelineSpec:
        params:
          - name: source_url
    # ...
  • With this update, if an authorized user provides an ok-to-test comment to trigger a pipeline run on the pull request from an unauthorized user and then the author makes further changes to the branch, Pipelines as Code triggers the pipelines. To disable triggering the pipeline until an authorized user provides a new ok-to-test comment, set the pipelinesAsCode.settings.remember-ok-to-test spec in the TektonConfig CR to false.

  • With this update, on the GitHub status check page, the table that shows the status of all tasks includes the display name of every task.

  • With this update, you can configure the tags push event in a pipeline run on GitLab.

  • With this update, you can use the target_url and source_url fields in Pipelines as Code Common Expression Language (CEL) expression filtering annotations to filter the request for a specific target or source.

  • With this update, when you configure fetching a remote GitHub URL using a token, you can include a branch name that contains a slash. You must encode the slash within the branch name as %2F to ensure proper parsing by Pipelines as Code, as in the following example URL: https://github.com/organization/repository/blob/feature%2Fmainbranch/path/file. In this example URL, the branch name is feature/mainbranch and the name of the file to fetch is /path/file.

  • With this update, you can use --v1beta1 flag in the tkn pac resolve command. Use this flag if the pipeline run is generated with the v1beta1 API version schema.

Breaking changes

  • With this update, you cannot use the openshift-operators namespace as the target namespace for installing OpenShift Pipelines. If you used the openshift-operators namespace as the target namespace, change the target namespace before upgrading to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator version 1.12. Otherwise, after the upgrade, you will not be able to change any configuration settings in the TektonConfig CR except the targetNamespace setting.

  • With this update, the new spec.pipeline.performance.replicas parameter controls the number of replicas that is created for every pod for a pipeline run or task run. If you previously set the replica counts in your deployment manually, after upgrading to OpenShift Pipelines version 1.12 you must use this parameter to control the replica counts.

  • With this update, the following parameters are no longer supported in the TektonResult CR:

    • db_user

    • db_password

    • s3_bucket_name

    • s3_endpoint

    • s3_hostname_immutable

    • s3_region

    • s3_access_key_id

    • s3_secret_access_key

    • s3_multi_part_size

      You must provide these parameters using secrets. After upgrading to OpenShift Pipelines version 1.12, you must delete and re-create the TektonResult CR to provide these parameters.

  • With this update, the tkn pac bootstrap command supports the --github-hostname flag. The --github-api-url flag is deprecated.

Known issues

  • If limit ranges are configured for a namespace, but pod ephemeral storage is not configured in the limit ranges, pods can go into an error stage with the message Pod ephemeral local storage usage exceeds the total limit of containers 0.

  • If you want to make changes to the configuration in the TektonResult CR, you must delete the existing TektonResult CR and then create a new one. If you change an existing TektonResult CR, the changes are not applied to the existing deployment of Tekton Results. For example, if you change the connection from an internal database server to an external one or vice versa, the API remains connected to the old database.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code ran pipeline runs based only on branch base names, and could incorrectly trigger pipeline runs with the same base name but different branch name. With this update, Pipelines as Code checks both the base name and the exact branch name of a pipeline run.

  • Before this update, an incoming webhook event could trigger multiple pipeline runs configured for other events. With this update, an incoming webhook event triggers only a pipeline run configured for the webhook event.

  • With this update, the pac-gitauth secrets are now explicitly deleted when cleaning up a pipeline run, in case the ownerRef on the pipeline run gets removed.

  • Before this update, when a task in a pipeline run failed with a reason message, the entire pipeline run failed with a PipelineValidationFailed reason. With this update, the pipeline run fails with the same reason message as the task that failed.

  • Before this update, the disable-ha flag value was not correctly passed to the Pipelines controller, and the high availability (HA) functionality was never enabled. With this update, you can enable the HA functionality by setting the value of the disable-ha flag in the TektonConfig CR to false.

  • Before this update, the skopeo-copy cluster task would fail when attempting to copy images mentioned in config map data. With this update, the skopeo-copy cluster task completes properly.

  • With this update, a pipeline run automatically generated by the tkn pac generate –language=java command has correct annotations and parameter names.

  • Before this update, only a user with the administrative permissions could successfully run the tkn pac create repository command. With this update, any authorized user can run the tkn pac create repository command.

  • Before this update, the /test <run-name> and /retest <run-name> user comments, which specified a particular pipeline, did not trigger pipeline runs as expected. With this update, these comments trigger pipeline runs successfully.

  • Before this update, if there were multiple pipeline runs in the .tekton folder with the generateName field and not the Name field, the pipeline runs failed. This update fixes the issue.

  • Before this update, in Pipelines as Code when using GitLab, a pipeline run was triggered by any event in a merge request, including adding labels and setting status. With this update, the pipeline run is triggered only when there is an open, reopen, or push event. A comment containing the status of the checks is now posted on the merge request.

  • Before this update, while a pipeline run was waiting for approval, the status of the check could be displayed as skipped in the checks section of GitHub and Gitea pull requests. With this update, the correct pending approval status is displayed.

  • Before this update, the bundles resolver sometimes set the type to Task when attempting to retrieve a pipeline, leading to errors in retrieval. With this update, the resolver uses the correct type to retrieve a pipeline.

  • This update fixes an error in processing the Common Expression Language (CEL) NOT operator when querying Tekton Results.

  • This update fixed a 404 error response that was produced in the Tekton Results API when a LIST operation for records was requested and the specified result was -.

  • Before this update, in an EventListener object, the status.address.url field was always set to the default port. With this update, the status.address.url field is set to match the port specified in the spec.resources.kubernetesresource.serviceport parameter.

  • Before this update, if the GitHub API provided a paginated response, Pipelines as Code used only the first page of the response. With this update, all paginated responses are processed fully.

  • Before this update, the Tekton Chains controller crashed when the host address of KMS Hashicorp Vault was configured incorrectly or when Tekton Chains was unable to connect to the KMS Hashicorp Vault. With this update, Tekton Chains logs the connection error and does not crash.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.12.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.12.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, if you configured Pipelines as Code with the custom console driver to output to a custom console, the Pipelines as Code controller crashed in certain cases. After you pushed changes to a pull request, the CI status check for this pull request could remain as waiting for status to be reported and the associated pipeline run did not complete. With this update, the Pipelines as Code controller operates normally. After you push changes to a pull request, the associated pipeline run completes normally and the CI status check for the pull request is updated.

  • Before this update, when using Pipelines as Code, if you created an access policy on the Repository custom resource (CR) that did not include a particular user and then added the user to the OWNER file in the Git repository, the user would have no rights for the Pipelines as Code CI process. For example, if the user created a pull request into the Git repository. the CI process would not run on this pull request automatically. With this update, a user who is not included in the access policy on the Repository CR but is included in the OWNER file is allowed to run the CI process for the repository.

  • With this update, the HTTP/2.0 protocol is not supported for webhooks. All webhook calls to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines must use the HTTP/1.1 protocol.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.12.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.12.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the generated Git secret for the latest pipeline run was deleted when the max-keep-runs parameter was exceeded. With this update, the Git secret is no longer deleted on the latest pipeline run.

  • With this update, the S2I cluster task uses a General Availability container image.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.11

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.11 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

New features

In addition to fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11:

Before upgrading to the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.11, ensure that you have at least installed the OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.19 or 4.13.1 version on your cluster.

Pipelines

  • With this update, you can use Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines on the OpenShift Container Platform cluster that runs on ARM hardware. You have support for the ClusterTask resources where images are available and the Tekton CLI tool on ARM hardware.

  • This update adds support for results, object parameters, array results, and indexing into an array when you set the enable-api-fields feature flag to beta value in the TektonConfig CR.

  • With this update, propagated parameters are now part of a stable feature. This feature enables interpolating parameters in embedded specifications to reduce verbosity in Tekton resources.

  • With this update, propagated workspaces are now part of a stable feature. You can enable the propagated workspaces feature by setting the enable-api-fields feature flag to alpha or beta value.

  • With this update, the TaskRun object fetches and displays the init container failure message to users when a pod fails to run.

  • With this update, you can replace parameters, results, and the context of a pipeline task while configuring a matrix as per the following guidelines:

    • Replace an array with an array parameter or a string with a string, array, or object parameter in the matrix.params configuration.

    • Replace a string with a string, array, or object parameter in the matrix.include configuration.

    • Replace the context of a pipeline task with another context in the matrix.include configuration.

  • With this update, the TaskRun resource validation process also validates the matrix.include parameters. The validation checks whether all parameters have values and match the specified type, and object parameters have all the keys required.

  • This update adds a new default-resolver-type field in the default-configs config map. You can set the value of this field to configure a default resolver.

  • With this update, you can define and use a PipelineRun context variable in the pipelineRun.workspaces.subPath configuration.

  • With this update, the ClusterResolver, BundleResolver, HubResolver, and GitResolver features are now available by default.

Triggers

  • With this update, Tekton Triggers support the Affinity and TopologySpreadConstraints values in the EventListener specification. You can use these values to configure Kubernetes and custom resources for an EventListener object.

  • This update adds a Slack interceptor that allows you to extract fields by using a slash command in Slack. The extracted fields are sent in the form data section of an HTTP request.

Operator

  • With this update, you can configure pruning for each PipelineRun or TaskRun resource by setting a prune-per-resource boolean field in the TektonConfig CR. You can also configure pruning for each PipelineRun or TaskRun resource in a namespace by adding the operator.tekton.dev/prune.prune-per-resource=true annotation to that namespace.

  • With this update, if there are any changes in the OpenShift Container Platform cluster-wide proxy, Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) recreates the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

  • With this update, you can disable the pruner feature by setting the value of the config.pruner.disabled field to true in the TektonConfig CR.

Tekton Chains

  • With this update, Tekton Chains is now generally available for use.

  • With this update, you can use the skopeo tool with Tekton Chains to generate keys, which are used in the cosign signing scheme.

  • When you upgrade to the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.11, the previous Tekton Chains configuration will be overwritten and you must set it again in the TektonConfig CR.

Tekton Hub

Tekton Hub is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • This update adds a new resource/<catalog_name>/<kind>/<resource_name>/raw endpoint and a new resourceURLPath field in the resource API response. This update helps you to obtain the latest raw YAML file of the resource.

Tekton Results

Tekton Results is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • This update adds Tekton Results to the Tekton Operator as an optional component.

Pipelines as Code

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code allows you to expand a custom parameter within your PipelineRun resource by using the params field. You can specify a value for the custom parameter inside the template of the Repository CR. The specified value replaces the custom parameter in your pipeline run. Also, you can define a custom parameter and use its expansion only when specified conditions are compatible with a Common Expression Language (CEL) filter.

  • With this update, you can either rerun a specific pipeline or all pipelines by clicking the Re-run all checks button in the Checks tab of the GitHub interface.

  • This update adds a new tkn pac info command to the Pipelines as Code CLI. As an administrator, you can use the tkn pac info command to obtain the following details about the Pipelines as Code installation:

    • The location where Pipelines as Code is installed.

    • The version number of Pipelines as Code.

    • An overview of the Repository CR created on the cluster and the URL associated with the repository.

    • Details of any installed GitHub applications.

      With this command, you can also specify a custom GitHub API URL by using the --github-api-url argument.

  • This update enables error detection for all PipelineRun resources by default. Pipelines as Code detects if a PipelineRun resource execution has failed and shows a snippet of the last few lines of the error. For a GitHub application, Pipelines as Code detects error messages in the container logs and exposes them as annotations on a pull request.

  • With this update, you can fetch tasks from a private Tekton Hub instance attached to a private Git repository. To enable this update, Pipelines as Code uses the internal raw URL of the private Tekton Hub instance instead of using the GitHub raw URL.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code provided logs that would not include the namespace detail. With this update, Pipelines as Code adds the namespace information to the pipeline logs so that you can filter them based on a namespace and debug easily.

  • With this update, you can define the provenance source from where the PipelineRun resource definition is to be fetched. By default, Pipelines as Code fetches the PipelineRun resource definition from the branch where the event has been triggered. Now, you can configure the value of the pipelinerun_provenance setting to default_branch so that the PipelineRun resource definition is fetched from the default branch of the repository as configured on GitHub.

  • With this update, you can extend the scope of the GitHub token at the following levels:

    • Repository-level: Use this level to extend the scope to the repositories that exist in the same namespace in which the original repository exists.

    • Global-level: Use this level to extend the scope to the repositories that exist in a different namespace.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code triggers a CI pipeline for a pull request created by a user who is not an owner, collaborator, or public member or is not listed in the owner file but has permission to push changes to the repository.

  • With this update, the custom console setting allows you to use custom parameters from a Repository CR.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code changes all PipelineRun labels to PipelineRun annotations. You can use a PipelineRun annotation to mark a Tekton resource, instead of using a PipelineRun label.

  • With this update, you can use the pac-config-logging config map for watcher and webhook resources, but not for the Pipelines as Code controller.

Breaking changes

  • This update replaces the resource-verification-mode feature flag with a new trusted-resources-verification-no-match-policy flag in the pipeline specification.

  • With this update, you cannot edit the Tekton Chains CR. Instead, edit the TektonConfig CR to configure Tekton Chains.

Deprecated and removed features

  • This update removes support for the PipelineResource commands and references from Tekton CLI:

    • Removal of pipeline resources from cluster tasks

    • Removal of pipeline resources from tasks

    • Removal of pipeline resources from pipelines

    • Removal of resource commands

    • Removal of input and output resources from the clustertask describe command

  • This update removes support for the full embedded status from Tekton CLI.

  • The taskref.bundle and pipelineref.bundle bundles are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11, support for the PipelineResource CR has been removed, use the Task CR instead.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11, support for the v1alpha1.Run objects has been removed. You must upgrade the objects from v1alpha1.Run to v1beta1.CustomRun before upgrading to this release.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11, the custom-task-version feature flag has been removed.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11, the pipelinerun.status.taskRuns and pipelinerun.status.runs fields have been removed along with the embedded-status feature flag. Use the pipelinerun.status.childReferences field instead.

Known issues

  • Setting the prune-per-resource boolean field does not delete PipelineRun or TaskRun resources if they were not part of any pipeline or task.

  • Tekton CLI does not show logs of the PipelineRun resources that are created by using resolvers.

  • When you filter your pipeline results based on the order_by=created_time+desc&page_size=1 query, you get zero records without any nextPageToken value in the output.

  • When you set the value of the loglevel.pipelinesascode field to debug, no debugging logs are generated in the Pipelines as Code controller pod. As a workaround, restart the Pipelines as Code controller pod.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code failed to create a PipelineRun resource while detecting the generateName field in the PipelineRun CR. With this update, Pipelines as Code supports providing the generateName field in the PipelineRun CR.

  • Before this update, when you created a PipelineRun resource from the web console, all annotations would be copied from the pipeline, causing issues for the running nodes. This update now resolves the issue.

  • This update fixes the tkn pr delete command for the keep flag. Now, if the value of the keep flag is equal to the number of the associated task runs or pipeline runs, then the command returns the exit code 0 along with a message.

  • Before this update, the Tekton Operator did not expose the performance configuration fields for any customizations. With this update, as a cluster administrator, you can customize the following performance configuration fields in the TektonConfig CR based on your needs:

    • disable-ha

    • buckets

    • kube-api-qps

    • kube-api-burst

    • threads-per-controller

  • This update fixes the remote bundle resolver to perform a case-insensitive comparison of the kind field with the dev.tekton.image.kind annotation value in the bundle.

  • Before this update, pods for remote resolvers were terminated because of insufficient memory when you would clone a large Git repository. This update fixes the issue and increases the memory limit for deploying remote resolvers.

  • With this update, task and pipeline resources of v1 type are supported in remote resolution.

  • This update reverts the removal of embedded TaskRun status from the API. The embedded TaskRun status is now available as a deprecated feature to support compatibility with older versions of the client-server.

  • Before this update, all annotations were merged into PipelineRun and TaskRun resources even if they were not required for the execution. With this update, when you merge annotations into PipelineRun and TaskRun resources, the last-applied-configuration annotation is skipped.

  • This update fixes a regression issue and prevents the validation of a skipped task result in pipeline results. For example, if the pipeline result references a skipped PipelineTask resource, then the pipeline result is not emitted and the PipelineRun execution does not fail due to a missing result.

  • This update uses the pod status message to determine the cause of a pod termination.

  • Before this update, the default resolver was not set for the execution of the finally tasks. This update sets the default resolver for the finally tasks.

  • With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines avoids occasional failures of the TaskRun or PipelineRun execution when you use remote resolution.

  • Before this update, a long pipeline run would be stuck in the running state on the cluster, even after the timeout. This update fixes the issue.

  • This update fixes the tkn pr delete command for correctly using the keep flag. With this update, if the value of the keep flag equals the number of associated task runs or pipeline runs, the tkn pr delete command returns exit code 0 along with a message.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.11.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.11.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, a task run could fail with a mount path error message, when a running or pending pod was preempted. With this update, a task run does not fail when the cluster causes a pod to be deleted and re-created.

  • Before this update, a shell script in a task had to be run as root. With this update, the shell script image has the non-root user ID set so that you can run a task that includes a shell script, such as the git-clone task, as a non-root user within the pod.

  • Before this update, in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11.0, when a pipeline run is defined using Pipelines as Code, the definition in the Git repository references the tekton.dev/v1beta1 API version and includes a spec.pipelineRef.bundle entry, the kind parameter for the bundle reference was wrongly set to Task. The issue did not exist in earlier versions of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines. With this update, the kind parameter is set correctly.

  • Before this update, the disable-ha flag was not correctly passed to the tekton-pipelines controller, so the High Availability (HA) feature of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines could not be enabled. With this update, the disable-ha flag is correctly passed and you can enable the HA feature as required.

  • Before this update, you could not set the URL for Tekton Hub and Artifact Hub for the hub resolver, so you could use only the preset addresses of Tekton Hub and Artifact Hub. With this update, you can configure the URL for Tekton Hub and Artifact Hub for the hub resolver, for example, to use a custom Tekton Hub instance that you installed.

  • With this update, the SHA digest of the git-init image corresponds to version 1.10.5, which is the current released version of the image.

  • Before this update, the tekton-pipelines-controller component used a config map named config-leader-election. This name is the default value for knative controllers, so the configuration process for OpenShift Pipelines could affect other controllers and vice versa. With this update, the component uses a unique config name, so the configuration process for OpenShift Pipelines does not affect other controllers and is not affected by other controllers.

  • Before this update, when a user without write access to a GitHub repository opened a pull request, Pipelines as Code CI/CD actions would show as skipped in GitHub. With this update, Pipelines as Code CI/CD actions are shown as Pending approval in GitHub.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code ran CI/CD actions for every pull request into a branch that matched a configured branch name. With this update, Pipelines as Code runs CI/CD actions only when the source branch of the pull request matches the exact configured branch name.

  • Before this update, metrics for the Pipelines as Code controller were not visible in the OpenShift Container Platform developer console. With this update, metrics for the Pipelines as Code controller are displayed in the developer console.

  • Before this update, in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.11.0, the Operator always installed Tekton Chains and you could not disable installation of the Tekton Chains component. With this update, you can set the value of the disabled parameter to true in the TektonConfig CR to disable installation okindf Tekton Chains.

  • Before this update, if you configured Tekton Chains on an older version of OpenShift Pipelines using the TektonChain CR and then upgraded to OpenShift Pipelines version 1.11.0, the configuration information was overwritten. With this update, if you upgrade from an older version of OpenShift Pipelines and Tekton Chains was configured in the same namespace where the TektonConfig is installed (openshift-pipelines), Tekton Chains configuration information is preserved.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.11.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.11.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 and later versions.

This update includes an updated version of the tkn command line tool. You can download the updated version of this tool at the following locations:

If you installed the tkn command line tool using RPM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), use the yum update command to install the updated version.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the tkn pac resolve -f command did not detect the existing secret for authentication with the Git repository. With this update, this command successfully detects the secret.

  • With this update, you can use --v1beta1 flag in the tkn pac resolve command. Use this flag if you want to generate the pipeline run with the v1beta1 API version schema.

  • Before this update, the tkn pr logs command failed to display the logs for a pipeline run if this pipeline run referenced a resolver. With this update, the command displays the logs.

  • With this update, the SHA digest of the git-init image corresponds to version 1.12.1, which is the current released version of the image

  • With this update, the HTTP/2.0 protocol is not supported for webhooks. All webhook calls to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines must use the HTTP/1.1 protocol.

Known issues

  • If you use the Bundles resolver to define a pipeline run and then use the tkn pac resolve --v1beta1 command for this pipeline run, the command generates incorrect YAML output. The kind parameter for the bundle is set to Task in the YAML output. As a workaround, you can set the correct value in the YAML data manually. Alternatively, you can use the opc pac resolve --v1beta1 command or use the version of the tkn tool included with OpenShift Pipelines version 1.12.0 or later.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.11.3

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.11.3 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 in addition to 4.12 and later versions.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, if the final task of a pipeline has failed or was skipped, OpenShift Pipelines reported validation errors. With this update, a pipeline can succeed even if its final task fails or is skipped.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

New features

In addition to fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10.

Pipelines

  • With this update, you can specify environment variables in a PipelineRun or TaskRun pod template to override or append the variables that are configured in a task or step. Also, you can specify environment variables in a default pod template to use those variables globally for all PipelineRuns and TaskRuns. This update also adds a new default configuration named forbidden-envs to filter environment variables while propagating from pod templates.

  • With this update, custom tasks in pipelines are enabled by default.

    To disable this update, set the enable-custom-tasks flag to false in the feature-flags config custom resource.

  • This update supports the v1beta1.CustomRun API version for custom tasks.

  • This update adds support for the PipelineRun reconciler to create a custom run. For example, custom TaskRuns created from PipelineRuns can now use the v1beta1.CustomRun API version instead of v1alpha1.Run, if the custom-task-version feature flag is set to v1beta1, instead of the default value v1alpha1.

    You need to update the custom task controller to listen for the *v1beta1.CustomRun API version instead of *v1alpha1.Run in order to respond to v1beta1.CustomRun requests.

  • This update adds a new retries field to the v1beta1.TaskRun and v1.TaskRun specifications.

Triggers

  • With this update, triggers support the creation of Pipelines, Tasks, PipelineRuns, and TaskRuns objects of the v1 API version along with CustomRun objects of the v1beta1 API version.

  • With this update, GitHub Interceptor blocks a pull request trigger from being executed unless invoked by an owner or with a configurable comment by an owner.

    To enable or disable this update, set the value of the githubOwners parameter to true or false in the GitHub Interceptor configuration file.

  • With this update, GitHub Interceptor has the ability to add a comma delimited list of all files that have changed for the push and pull request events. The list of changed files is added to the changed_files property of the event payload in the top-level extensions field.

  • This update changes the MinVersion of TLS to tls.VersionTLS12 so that triggers run on OpenShift Container Platform when the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) mode is enabled.

CLI

  • This update adds support to pass a Container Storage Interface (CSI) file as a workspace at the time of starting a Task, ClusterTask or Pipeline.

  • This update adds v1 API support to all CLI commands associated with task, pipeline, pipeline run, and task run resources. Tekton CLI works with both v1beta1 and v1 APIs for these resources.

  • This update adds support for an object type parameter in the start and describe commands.

Operator

  • This update adds a default-forbidden-env parameter in optional pipeline properties. The parameter includes forbidden environment variables that should not be propagated if provided through pod templates.

  • This update adds support for custom logos in Tekton Hub UI. To add a custom logo, set the value of the customLogo parameter to base64 encoded URI of logo in the Tekton Hub CR.

  • This update increments the version number of the git-clone task to 0.9.

Tekton Chains

Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • This update adds annotations and labels to the PipelineRun and TaskRun attestations.

  • This update adds a new format named slsa/v1, which generates the same provenance as the one generated when requesting in the in-toto format.

  • With this update, Sigstore features are moved out from the experimental features.

  • With this update, the predicate.materials function includes image URI and digest information from all steps and sidecars for a TaskRun object.

Tekton Hub

Tekton Hub is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • This update supports installing, upgrading, or downgrading Tekton resources of the v1 API version on the cluster.

  • This update supports adding a custom logo in place of the Tekton Hub logo in UI.

  • This update extends the tkn hub install command functionality by adding a --type artifact flag, which fetches resources from the Artifact Hub and installs them on your cluster.

  • This update adds support tier, catalog, and org information as labels to the resources being installed from Artifact Hub to your cluster.

Pipelines as Code

  • This update enhances incoming webhook support. For a GitHub application installed on the OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you do not need to provide the git_provider specification for an incoming webhook. Instead, Pipelines as Code detects the secret and use it for the incoming webhook.

  • With this update, you can use the same token to fetch remote tasks from the same host on GitHub with a non-default branch.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code supports Tekton v1 templates. You can have v1 and v1beta1 templates, which Pipelines as Code reads for PR generation. The PR is created as v1 on cluster.

  • Before this update, OpenShift console UI would use a hardcoded pipeline run template as a fallback template when a runtime template was not found in the OpenShift namespace. This update in the pipelines-as-code config map provides a new default pipeline run template named, pipelines-as-code-template-default for the console to use.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code supports Tekton Pipelines 0.44.0 minimal status.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code supports Tekton v1 API, which means Pipelines as Code is now compatible with Tekton v0.44 and later.

  • With this update, you can configure custom console dashboards in addition to configuring a console for OpenShift and Tekton dashboards for k8s.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code detects the installation of a GitHub application initiated using the tkn pac create repo command and does not require a GitHub webhook if it was installed globally.

  • Before this update, if there was an error on a PipelineRun execution and not on the tasks attached to PipelineRun, Pipelines as Code would not report the failure properly. With this update, Pipelines as Code reports the error properly on the GitHub checks when a PipelineRun could not be created.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code includes a target_namespace variable, which expands to the currently running namespace where the PipelineRun is executed.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code lets you bypass GitHub enterprise questions in the CLI bootstrap GitHub application.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code does not report errors when the repository CR was not found.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code reports an error if multiple pipeline runs with the same name were found.

Breaking changes

  • With this update, the prior version of the tkn command is not compatible with Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10.

  • This update removes support for Cluster and CloudEvent pipeline resources from Tekton CLI. You cannot create pipeline resources by using the tkn pipelineresource create command. Also, pipeline resources are no longer supported in the start command of a task, cluster task, or pipeline.

  • This update removes tekton as a provenance format from Tekton Chains.

Deprecated and removed features

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10, the ClusterTask commands are now deprecated and are planned to be removed in a future release. The tkn task create command is also deprecated with this update.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10, the flags -i and -o that were used with the tkn task start command are now deprecated because the v1 API does not support pipeline resources.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10, the flag -r that was used with the tkn pipeline start command is deprecated because the v1 API does not support pipeline resources.

  • The Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10 update sets the openshiftDefaultEmbeddedStatus parameter to both with full and minimal embedded status. The flag to change the default embedded status is also deprecated and will be removed. In addition, the pipeline default embedded status will be changed to minimal in a future release.

Known issues

  • This update includes the following backward incompatible changes:

    • Removal of the PipelineResources cluster

    • Removal of the PipelineResources cloud event

  • If the pipelines metrics feature does not work after a cluster upgrade, run the following command as a workaround:

    $ oc get tektoninstallersets.operator.tekton.dev | awk '/pipeline-main-static/ {print $1}' | xargs oc delete tektoninstallersets
  • With this update, usage of external databases, such as the Crunchy PostgreSQL is not supported on IBM Power, IBM zSystems, and IBM® LinuxONE. Instead, use the default Tekton Hub database.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the opc pac command generated a runtime error instead of showing any help. This update fixes the opc pac command to show the help message.

  • Before this update, running the tkn pac create repo command needed the webhook details for creating a repository. With this update, the tkn-pac create repo command does not configure a webhook when your GitHub application is installed.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code would not report a pipeline run creation error when Tekton Pipelines had issues creating the PipelineRun resource. For example, a non-existing task in a pipeline run would show no status. With this update, Pipelines as Code shows the proper error message coming from Tekton Pipelines along with the task that is missing.

  • This update fixes UI page redirection after a successful authentication. Now, you are redirected to the same page where you had attempted to log in to Tekton Hub.

  • This update fixes the list command with these flags, --all-namespaces and --output=yaml, for a cluster task, an individual task, and a pipeline.

  • This update removes the forward slash in the end of the repo.spec.url URL so that it matches the URL coming from GitHub.

  • Before this update, the marshalJSON function would not marshal a list of objects. With this update, the marshalJSON function marshals the list of objects.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code lets you bypass GitHub enterprise questions in the CLI bootstrap GitHub application.

  • This update fixes the GitHub collaborator check when your repository has more than 100 users.

  • With this update, the sign and verify commands for a task or pipeline now work without a kubernetes configuration file.

  • With this update, Tekton Operator cleans leftover pruner cron jobs if pruner has been skipped on a namespace.

  • Before this update, the API ConfigMap object would not be updated with a user configured value for a catalog refresh interval. This update fixes the CATALOG_REFRESH_INTERVAL API in the Tekon Hub CR.

  • This update fixes reconciling of PipelineRunStatus when changing the EmbeddedStatus feature flag. This update resets the following parameters:

    • The status.runs and status.taskruns parameters to nil with minimal EmbeddedStatus

    • The status.childReferences parameter to nil with full EmbeddedStatus

  • This update adds a conversion configuration to the ResolutionRequest CRD. This update properly configures conversion from the v1alpha1.ResolutionRequest request to the v1beta1.ResolutionRequest request.

  • This update checks for duplicate workspaces associated with a pipeline task.

  • This update fixes the default value for enabling resolvers in the code.

  • This update fixes TaskRef and PipelineRef names conversion by using a resolver.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues for Pipelines as Code

  • Before this update, if the source branch information coming from payload included refs/heads/ but the user-configured target branch only included the branch name, main, in a CEL expression, the push request would fail. With this update, Pipelines as Code passes the push request and triggers a pipeline if either the base branch or target branch has refs/heads/ in the payload.

  • Before this update, when a PipelineRun object could not be created, the error received from the Tekton controller was not reported to the user. With this update, Pipelines as Code reports the error messages to the GitHub interface so that users can troubleshoot the errors. Pipelines as Code also reports the errors that occurred during pipeline execution.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code does not echo a secret to the GitHub checks interface when it failed to create the secret on the OpenShift Container Platform cluster because of an infrastructure issue.

  • This update removes the deprecated APIs that are no longer in use from Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

Before this update, an issue in the Tekton Operator prevented the user from setting the value of the enable-api-fields flag to beta. This update fixes the issue. Now, you can set the value of the enable-api-fields flag to beta in the TektonConfig CR.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.3

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.3 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

Before this update, the Tekton Operator did not expose the performance configuration fields for any customizations. With this update, as a cluster administrator, you can customize the following performance configuration fields in the TektonConfig CR based on your needs:

  • disable-ha

  • buckets

  • kube-api-qps

  • kube-api-burst

  • threads-per-controller

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.4

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.4 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

  • This update fixes the bundle resolver conversion issue for the PipelineRef field in a pipeline run. Now, the conversion feature sets the value of the kind field to Pipeline after conversion.

  • Before this update, the pipelinerun.timeouts field was reset to the timeouts.pipeline value, ignoring the timeouts.tasks and timeouts.finally values. This update fixes the issue and sets the correct default timeout value for a PipelineRun resource.

  • Before this update, the controller logs contained unnecessary data. This update fixes the issue.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.5

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.5 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 in addition to 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.10.5 is only available in the pipelines-1.10 channel on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13. It is not available in the latest channel for any OpenShift Container Platform version.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, huge pipeline runs were not getting listed or deleted using the oc and tkn commands. This update mitigates this issue by compressing the huge annotations that were causing this problem. Remember that if the pipeline runs are still too huge after compression, then the same error still recurs.

  • Before this update, only the pod template specified in the pipelineRun.spec.taskRunSpecs[].podTemplate object would be considered for a pipeline run. With this update, the pod template specified in the pipelineRun.spec.podTemplate object is also considered and merged with the template specified in the pipelineRun.spec.taskRunSpecs[].podTemplate object.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.10.6

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.10.6 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

This update includes an updated version of the tkn command line tool. You can download the updated version of this tool at the following locations:

If you installed the tkn command line tool using RPM on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), use the yum update command to install the updated version.

Known issues

  • If you enter the tkn task start or tkn clustertask start command, the tkn command line utility displays an error message. As a workaround, to start tasks or cluster tasks using the command line, use the version of the tkn utility shipped with OpenShift Pipelines 1.11 or a later version.

Fixed issues

  • With this update, the S2I cluster task uses a General Availability container image.

  • With this update, the HTTP/2.0 protocol is not supported for webhooks. All webhook calls to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines must use the HTTP/1.1 protocol.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.9

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.9 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.

Pipelines

  • With this update, you can specify pipeline parameters and results in arrays and object dictionary forms.

  • This update provides support for Container Storage Interface (CSI) and projected volumes for your workspace.

  • With this update, you can specify the stdoutConfig and stderrConfig parameters when defining pipeline steps. Defining these parameters helps to capture standard output and standard error, associated with steps, to local files.

  • With this update, you can add variables in the steps[].onError event handler, for example, $(params.CONTINUE).

  • With this update, you can use the output from the finally task in the PipelineResults definition. For example, $(finally.<pipelinetask-name>.result.<result-name>), where <pipelinetask-name> denotes the pipeline task name and <result-name> denotes the result name.

  • This update supports task-level resource requirements for a task run.

  • With this update, you do not need to recreate parameters that are shared, based on their names, between a pipeline and the defined tasks. This update is part of a developer preview feature.

  • This update adds support for remote resolution, such as built-in git, cluster, bundle, and hub resolvers.

Triggers

  • This update adds the Interceptor CRD to define NamespacedInterceptor. You can use NamespacedInterceptor in the kind section of interceptors reference in triggers or in the EventListener specification.

  • This update enables CloudEvents.

  • With this update, you can configure the webhook port number when defining a trigger.

  • This update supports using trigger eventID as input to TriggerBinding.

  • This update supports validation and rotation of certificates for the ClusterInterceptor server. 

    • Triggers perform certificate validation for core interceptors and rotate a new certificate to ClusterInterceptor when its certificate expires.

CLI 

  • This update supports showing annotations in the describe command.

  • This update supports showing pipeline, tasks, and timeout in the pr describe command.

  • This update adds flags to provide pipeline, tasks, and timeout in the pipeline start command.

  • This update supports showing the presence of workspace, optional or mandatory, in the describe command of a task and pipeline.

  • This update adds the timestamps flag to show logs with a timestamp.

  • This update adds a new flag --ignore-running-pipelinerun, which ignores the deletion of TaskRun associated with PipelineRun.

  • This update adds support for experimental commands. This update also adds experimental subcommands, sign and verify to the tkn CLI tool.

  • This update makes the Z shell (Zsh) completion feature usable without generating any files.

  • This update introduces a new CLI tool called opc. It is anticipated that an upcoming release will replace the tkn CLI tool with opc.

    • The new CLI tool opc is a Technology Preview feature.

    • opc will be a replacement for tkn with additional Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines specific features, which do not necessarily fit in tkn.

Operator

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code is installed by default. You can disable Pipelines as Code by using the -p flag:

    $ oc patch tektonconfig config --type="merge" -p '{"spec": {"platforms": {"openshift":{"pipelinesAsCode": {"enable": false}}}}}'
  • With this update, you can also modify Pipelines as Code configurations in the TektonConfig CRD.

  • With this update, if you disable the developer perspective, the Operator does not install developer console related custom resources.

  • This update includes ClusterTriggerBinding support for Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Cloud and helps you to reuse a TriggerBinding across your entire cluster.

Resolvers

Resolvers is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, you can configure pipeline resolvers in the TektonConfig CRD. You can enable or disable these pipeline resolvers:  enable-bundles-resolver, enable-cluster-resolver, enable-git-resolver, and enable-hub-resolver.

    apiVersion: operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: TektonConfig
    metadata:
      name: config
    spec:
      pipeline:
        enable-bundles-resolver: true
        enable-cluster-resolver: true
        enable-git-resolver: true
        enable-hub-resolver: true
    ...

    You can also provide resolver specific configurations in TektonConfig. For example, you can define the following fields in the map[string]string format to set configurations for individual resolvers:

    apiVersion: operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: TektonConfig
    metadata:
      name: config
    spec:
      pipeline:
        bundles-resolver-config:
          default-service-account: pipelines
        cluster-resolver-config:
          default-namespace: test
        git-resolver-config:
          server-url: localhost.com
        hub-resolver-config:
          default-tekton-hub-catalog: tekton
    ...

Tekton Chains

Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • Before this update, only Open Container Initiative (OCI) images were supported as outputs of TaskRun in the in-toto provenance agent. This update adds in-toto provenance metadata as outputs with these suffixes, ARTIFACT_URI and ARTIFACT_DIGEST.

  • Before this update, only TaskRun attestations were supported. This update adds support for PipelineRun attestations as well.

  • This update adds support for Tekton Chains to get the imgPullSecret parameter from the pod template. This update helps you to configure repository authentication based on each pipeline run or task run without modifying the service account.

Tekton Hub

Tekton Hub is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, as an administrator, you can use an external database, such as Crunchy PostgreSQL with Tekton Hub, instead of using the default Tekton Hub database. This update helps you to perform the following actions:

    • Specify the coordinates of an external database to be used with Tekton Hub

    • Disable the default Tekton Hub database deployed by the Operator

  • This update removes the dependency of config.yaml from external Git repositories and moves the complete configuration data into the API ConfigMap. This update helps an administrator to perform the following actions:

    • Add the configuration data, such as categories, catalogs, scopes, and defaultScopes in the Tekton Hub custom resource.

    • Modify Tekton Hub configuration data on the cluster. All modifications are preserved upon Operator upgrades.

    • Update the list of catalogs for Tekton Hub

    • Change the categories for Tekton Hub

      If you do not add any configuration data, you can use the default data in the API ConfigMap for Tekton Hub configurations.

Pipelines as Code

  • This update adds support for concurrency limit in the Repository CRD to define the maximum number of PipelineRuns running for a repository at a time. The PipelineRuns from a pull request or a push event are queued in alphabetical order.

  • This update adds a new command tkn pac logs for showing the logs of the latest pipeline run for a repository.

  • This update supports advanced event matching on file path for push and pull requests to GitHub and GitLab. For example, you can use the Common Expression Language (CEL) to run a pipeline only if a path has changed for any markdown file in the docs directory.

      ...
      annotations:
         pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/on-cel-expression: |
          event == "pull_request" && "docs/*.md".pathChanged()
  • With this update, you can reference a remote pipeline in the pipelineRef: object using annotations.

  • With this update, you can auto-configure new GitHub repositories with Pipelines as Code, which sets up a namespace and creates a Repository CRD for your GitHub repository.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code generates metrics for PipelineRuns with provider information.

  • This update provides the following enhancements for the tkn-pac plugin:

    • Detects running pipelines correctly

    • Fixes showing duration when there is no failure completion time

    • Shows an error snippet and highlights the error regular expression pattern in the tkn-pac describe command

    • Adds the use-real-time switch to the tkn-pac ls and tkn-pac describe commands

    • Imports the tkn-pac logs documentation

    • Shows pipelineruntimeout as a failure in the tkn-pac ls and tkn-pac describe commands.

    • Show a specific pipeline run failure with the --target-pipelinerun option.

  • With this update, you can view the errors for your pipeline run in the form of a version control system (VCS) comment or a small snippet in the GitHub checks.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code optionally can detect errors inside the tasks if they are of a simple format and add those tasks as annotations in GitHub. This update is part of a developer preview feature.

  • This update adds the following new commands:

    • tkn-pac webhook add: Adds a webhook to project repository settings and updates the webhook.secret key in the existing k8s Secret object without updating the repository.

    • tkn-pac webhook update-token: Updates provider token for an existing k8s Secret object without updating the repository.

  • This update enhances functionality of the tkn-pac create repo command, which creates and configures webhooks for GitHub, GitLab, and BitbucketCloud along with creating repositories.

  • With this update, the tkn-pac describe command shows the latest fifty events in a sorted order.

  • This update adds the --last option to the tkn-pac logs command.

  • With this update, the tkn-pac resolve command prompts for a token on detecting a git_auth_secret in the file template.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code hides secrets from log snippets to avoid exposing secrets in the GitHub interface.

  • With this update, the secrets automatically generated for git_auth_secret are an owner reference with PipelineRun. The secrets get cleaned with the PipelineRun, not after the pipeline run execution.

  • This update adds support to cancel a pipeline run with the /cancel comment.

  • Before this update, the GitHub apps token scoping was not defined and tokens would be used on every repository installation. With this update, you can scope the GitHub apps token to the target repository using the following parameters:

    • secret-github-app-token-scoped: Scopes the app token to the target repository, not to every repository the app installation has access to.

    • secret-github-app-scope-extra-repos: Customizes the scoping of the app token with an additional owner or repository.

  • With this update, you can use Pipelines as Code with your own Git repositories that are hosted on GitLab.

  • With this update, you can access pipeline execution details in the form of kubernetes events in your namespace. These details help you to troubleshoot pipeline errors without needing access to admin namespaces.

  • This update supports authentication of URLs in the Pipelines as Code resolver with the Git provider.

  • With this update, you can set the name of the hub catalog by using a setting in the pipelines-as-code config map.

  • With this update, you can set the maximum and default limits for the max-keep-run parameter.

  • This update adds documents on how to inject custom Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates in Pipelines as Code to let you connect to provider instance with custom certificates.

  • With this update, the PipelineRun resource definition has the log URL included as an annotation. For example, the tkn-pac describe command shows the log link when describing a PipelineRun.

  • With this update, tkn-pac logs show repository name, instead of PipelineRun name.

Breaking changes

  • With this update, the Conditions custom resource definition (CRD) type has been removed. As an alternative, use the WhenExpressions instead.

  • With this update, support for tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API pipeline resources, such as Pipeline, PipelineRun, Task, Clustertask, and TaskRun has been removed.

  • With this update, the tkn-pac setup command has been removed. Instead, use the tkn-pac webhook add command to re-add a webhook to an existing Git repository. And use the tkn-pac webhook update-token command to update the personal provider access token for an existing Secret object in the Git repository.

  • With this update, a namespace that runs a pipeline with default settings does not apply the pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce:privileged label to a workload.

Deprecated and removed features

  • In the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.0 release, ClusterTasks are deprecated and planned to be removed in a future release. As an alternative, you can use Cluster Resolver.

  • In the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.0 release, the use of the triggers and the namespaceSelector fields in a single EventListener specification is deprecated and planned to be removed in a future release. You can use these fields in different EventListener specifications successfully.

  • In the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.0 release, the tkn pipelinerun describe command does not display timeouts for the PipelineRun resource.

  • In the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.0 release, the PipelineResource` custom resource (CR) is deprecated. The PipelineResource CR was a Tech Preview feature and part of the tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API.

  • In the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.9.0 release, custom image parameters from cluster tasks are deprecated. As an alternative, you can copy a cluster task and use your custom image in it.

Known issues

  • The chains-secret and chains-config config maps are removed after you uninstall the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. As they contain user data, they should be preserved and not deleted.

  • When running the tkn pac set of commands on Windows, you may receive the following error message: Command finished with error: not supported by Windows.

    Workaround: Set the NO_COLOR environment variable to true.

  • Running the tkn pac resolve -f <filename> | oc create -f command may not provide expected results, if the tkn pac resolve command uses a templated parameter value to function.

    Workaround: To mitigate this issue, save the output of tkn pac resolve in a temporary file by running the tkn pac resolve -f <filename> -o tempfile.yaml command and then run the oc create -f tempfile.yaml command. For example, tkn pac resolve -f <filename> -o /tmp/pull-request-resolved.yaml && oc create -f /tmp/pull-request-resolved.yaml.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, after replacing an empty array, the original array returned an empty string rendering the paramaters inside it invalid. With this update, this issue is resolved and the original array returns as empty.

  • Before this update, if duplicate secrets were present in a service account for a pipelines run, it resulted in failure in task pod creation. With this update, this issue is resolved and the task pod is created successfully even if duplicate secrets are present in a service account.

  • Before this update, by looking at the TaskRun’s spec.StatusMessage field, users could not distinguish whether the TaskRun had been cancelled by the user or by a PipelineRun that was part of it. With this update, this issue is resolved and users can distinguish the status of the TaskRun by looking at the TaskRun’s spec.StatusMessage field.

  • Before this update, webhook validation was removed on deletion of old versions of invalid objects. With this update, this issue is resolved.

  • Before this update, if you set the timeouts.pipeline parameter to 0, you could not set the timeouts.tasks parameter or the timeouts.finally parameters. This update resolves the issue. Now, when you set the timeouts.pipeline parameter value, you can set the value of either the`timeouts.tasks` parameter or the timeouts.finally parameter. For example:

    yaml
    kind: PipelineRun
    spec:
      timeouts:
        pipeline: "0"  # No timeout
        tasks: "0h3m0s"
  • Before this update, a race condition could occur if another tool updated labels or annotations on a PipelineRun or TaskRun. With this update, this issue is resolved and you can merge labels or annotations.

  • Before this update, log keys did not have the same keys as in pipelines controllers. With this update, this issue has been resolved and the log keys have been updated to match the log stream of pipeline controllers. The keys in logs have been changed from "ts" to "timestamp", from "level" to "severity", and from "message" to "msg".

  • Before this update, if a PipelineRun was deleted with an unknown status, an error message was not generated. With this update, this issue is resolved and an error message is generated.

  • Before this update, to access bundle commands like list and push, it was required to use the kubeconfig file . With this update, this issue has been resolved and the kubeconfig file is not required to access bundle commands.

  • Before this update, if the parent PipelineRun was running while deleting TaskRuns, then TaskRuns would be deleted. With this update, this issue is resolved and TaskRuns are not getting deleted if the parent PipelineRun is running.

  • Before this update, if the user attempted to build a bundle with more objects than the pipeline controller permitted, the Tekton CLI did not display an error message. With this update, this issue is resolved and the Tekton CLI displays an error message if the user attempts to build a bundle with more objects than the limit permitted in the pipeline controller.

  • Before this update, if namespaces were removed from the cluster, then the operator did not remove namespaces from the ClusterInterceptor ClusterRoleBinding subjects. With this update, this issue has been resolved, and the operator removes the namespaces from the ClusterInterceptor ClusterRoleBinding subjects.

  • Before this update, the default installation of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator resulted in the pipelines-scc-rolebinding security context constraint (SCC) role binding resource remaining in the cluster. With this update, the default installation of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator results in the pipelines-scc-rolebinding security context constraint (SCC) role binding resource resource being removed from the cluster.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code did not get updated values from the Pipelines as Code ConfigMap object. With this update, this issue is fixed and the Pipelines as Code ConfigMap object looks for any new changes.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code controller did not wait for the tekton.dev/pipeline label to be updated and added the checkrun id label, which would cause race conditions. With this update, the Pipelines as Code controller waits for the tekton.dev/pipeline label to be updated and then adds the checkrun id label, which helps to avoid race conditions.

  • Before this update, the tkn-pac create repo command did not override a PipelineRun if it already existed in the git repository. With this update, tkn-pac create command is fixed to override a PipelineRun if it exists in the git repository and this resolves the issue successfully.

  • Before this update, the tkn pac describe command did not display reasons for every message. With this update, this issue is fixed and the tkn pac describe command displays reasons for every message.

  • Before this update, a pull request failed if the user in the annotation provided values by using a regex form, for example, refs/head/rel-*. The pull request failed because it was missing refs/heads in its base branch. With this update, the prefix is added and checked that it matches. This resolves the issue and the pull request is successful.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.9.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.9.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the tkn pac repo list command did not run on Microsoft Windows. This update fixes the issue, and now you can run the tkn pac repo list command on Microsoft Windows.

  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code watcher did not receive all the configuration change events. With this update, the Pipelines as Code watcher is updated, and now the Pipelines as Code watcher does not miss the configuration change events.

  • Before this update, the pods created by Pipelines as Code, such as TaskRuns or PipelineRuns could not access custom certificates exposed by the user in the cluster. This update fixes the issue, and you can now access custom certificates from the TaskRuns or PipelineRuns pods in the cluster.

  • Before this update, on a cluster enabled with FIPS, the tekton-triggers-core-interceptors core interceptor used in the Trigger resource did not function after the Pipelines Operator was upgraded to version 1.9. This update resolves the issue. Now, OpenShift uses MInTLS 1.2 for all its components. As a result, the tekton-triggers-core-interceptors core interceptor updates to TLS version 1.2and its functionality runs accurately.

  • Before this update, when using a pipeline run with an internal OpenShift image registry, the URL to the image had to be hardcoded in the pipeline run definition. For example:

    ...
      - name: IMAGE_NAME
        value: 'image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/<test_namespace>/<test_pipelinerun>'
    ...

    When using a pipeline run in the context of Pipelines as Code, such hardcoded values prevented the pipeline run definitions from being used in different clusters and namespaces.

    With this update, you can use the dynamic template variables instead of hardcoding the values for namespaces and pipeline run names to generalize pipeline run definitions. For example:

    ...
      - name: IMAGE_NAME
        value: 'image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/{{ target_namespace }}/$(context.pipelineRun.name)'
    ...
  • Before this update, Pipelines as Code used the same GitHub token to fetch a remote task available in the same host only on the default GitHub branch. This update resolves the issue. Now Pipelines as Code uses the same GitHub token to fetch a remote task from any GitHub branch.

Known issues

  • The value for CATALOG_REFRESH_INTERVAL, a field in the Hub API ConfigMap object used in the Tekton Hub CR, is not getting updated with a custom value provided by the user.

    Workaround: None. You can track the issue SRVKP-2854.

Breaking changes

  • With this update, an OLM misconfiguration issue has been introduced, which prevents the upgrade of the OpenShift Container Platform. This issue will be fixed in a future release.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.9.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.9.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, an OLM misconfiguration issue had been introduced in the previous version of the release, which prevented the upgrade of OpenShift Container Platform. With this update, this misconfiguration issue has been fixed.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.9.3

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.9.3 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 in addition to 4.11, 4.12, and 4.13.

Fixed issues

  • This update fixes the performance issues for huge pipelines. Now, the CPU usage is reduced by 61% and the memory usage is reduced by 44%.

  • Before this update, a pipeline run would fail if a task did not run because of its when expression. This update fixes the issue by preventing the validation of a skipped task result in pipeline results. Now, the pipeline result is not emitted and the pipeline run does not fail because of a missing result.

  • This update fixes the pipelineref.bundle conversion to the bundle resolver for the v1beta1 API. Now, the conversion feature sets the value of the kind field to Pipeline after conversion.

  • Before this update, an issue in the OpenShift Pipelines Operator prevented the user from setting the value of the spec.pipeline.enable-api-fields field to beta. This update fixes the issue. Now, you can set the value to beta along with alpha and stable in the TektonConfig custom resource.

  • Before this update, when Pipelines as Code could not create a secret due to a cluster error, it would show the temporary token on the GitHub check run, which is public. This update fixes the issue. Now, the token is no longer displayed on the GitHub checks interface when the creation of the secret fails.

Known issues

  • There is currently a known issue with the stop option for pipeline runs in the OpenShift Container Platform web console. The stop option in the Actions drop-down list is not working as expected and does not cancel the pipeline run.

  • There is currently a known issue with upgrading to OpenShift Pipelines version 1.9.x due to a failing custom resource definition conversion.

    Workaround: Before upgrading to OpenShift Pipelines version 1.9.x, perform the step mentioned in the solution on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.8

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.8 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8.

Pipelines

  • With this update, you can run Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines GA 1.8 and later on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that is running on ARM hardware. This includes support for ClusterTask resources and the tkn CLI tool.

Running Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines on ARM hardware is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • This update implements Step and Sidecar overrides for TaskRun resources.

  • This update adds minimal TaskRun and Run statuses within PipelineRun statuses.

    To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

  • With this update, the graceful termination of pipeline runs feature is promoted from an alpha feature to a stable feature. As a result, the previously deprecated PipelineRunCancelled status remains deprecated and is planned to be removed in a future release.

    Because this feature is available by default, you no longer need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields field to alpha in the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

  • With this update, you can specify the workspace for a pipeline task by using the name of the workspace. This change makes it easier to specify a shared workspace for a pair of Pipeline and PipelineTask resources. You can also continue to map workspaces explicitly.

    To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

  • With this update, parameters in embedded specifications are propagated without mutations.

  • With this update, you can specify the required metadata of a Task resource referenced by a PipelineRun resource by using annotations and labels. This way, Task metadata that depends on the execution context is available during the pipeline run.

  • This update adds support for object or dictionary types in params and results values. This change affects backward compatibility and sometimes breaks forward compatibility, such as using an earlier client with a later Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines version. This update changes the ArrayOrStruct structure, which affects projects that use the Go language API as a library.

  • This update adds a SkippingReason value to the SkippedTasks field of the PipelineRun status fields so that users know why a given PipelineTask was skipped.

  • This update supports an alpha feature in which you can use an array type for emitting results from a Task object. The result type is changed from string to ArrayOrString. For example, a task can specify a type to produce an array result:

    kind: Task
    apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
    metadata:
      name: write-array
      annotations:
        description: |
          A simple task that writes array
    spec:
      results:
        - name: array-results
          type: array
          description: The array results
    ...

    Additionally, you can run a task script to populate the results with an array:

    $ echo -n "[\"hello\",\"world\"]" | tee $(results.array-results.path)

    To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

    This feature is in progress and is part of TEP-0076.

Triggers

  • This update transitions the TriggerGroups field in the EventListener specification from an alpha feature to a stable feature. Using this field, you can specify a set of interceptors before selecting and running a group of triggers.

    Because this feature is available by default, you no longer need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields field to alpha in the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

  • With this update, the Trigger resource supports end-to-end secure connections by running the ClusterInterceptor server using HTTPS.

CLI

  • With this update, you can use the tkn taskrun export command to export a live task run from a cluster to a YAML file, which you can use to import the task run to another cluster.

  • With this update, you can add the -o name flag to the tkn pipeline start command to print the name of the pipeline run right after it starts.

  • This update adds a list of available plugins to the output of the tkn --help command.

  • With this update, while deleting a pipeline run or task run, you can use both the --keep and --keep-since flags together.

  • With this update, you can use Cancelled as the value of the spec.status field rather than the deprecated PipelineRunCancelled value.

Operator

  • With this update, as an administrator, you can configure your local Tekton Hub instance to use a custom database rather than the default database.

  • With this update, as a cluster administrator, if you enable your local Tekton Hub instance, it periodically refreshes the database so that changes in the catalog appear in the Tekton Hub web console. You can adjust the period between refreshes.

    Previously, to add the tasks and pipelines in the catalog to the database, you performed that task manually or set up a cron job to do it for you.

  • With this update, you can install and run a Tekton Hub instance with minimal configuration. This way, you can start working with your teams to decide which additional customizations they might want.

  • This update adds GIT_SSL_CAINFO to the git-clone task so you can clone secured repositories.

Tekton Chains

Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, you can log in to a vault by using OIDC rather than a static token. This change means that Spire can generate the OIDC credential so that only trusted workloads are allowed to log in to the vault. Additionally, you can pass the vault address as a configuration value rather than inject it as an environment variable.

  • The chains-config config map for Tekton Chains in the openshift-pipelines namespace is automatically reset to default after upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator because directly updating the config map is not supported when installed by using the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. However, with this update, you can configure Tekton Chains by using the TektonChain custom resource. This feature enables your configuration to persist after upgrading, unlike the chains-config config map, which gets overwritten during upgrades.

Tekton Hub

Tekton Hub is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, if you install a fresh instance of Tekton Hub by using the Operator, the Tekton Hub login is disabled by default. To enable the login and rating features, you must create the Hub API secret while installing Tekton Hub.

    Because Tekton Hub login was enabled by default in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7, if you upgrade the Operator, the login is enabled by default in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8. To disable this login, see Disabling Tekton Hub login after upgrading from OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.x -→ 1.8.x

  • With this update, as an administrator, you can configure your local Tekton Hub instance to use a custom PostgreSQL 13 database rather than the default database. To do so, create a Secret resource named tekton-hub-db. For example:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Secret
    metadata:
      name: tekton-hub-db
      labels:
        app: tekton-hub-db
    type: Opaque
    stringData:
      POSTGRES_HOST: <hostname>
      POSTGRES_DB: <database_name>
      POSTGRES_USER: <username>
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: <password>
      POSTGRES_PORT: <listening_port_number>
  • With this update, you no longer need to log in to the Tekton Hub web console to add resources from the catalog to the database. Now, these resources are automatically added when the Tekton Hub API starts running for the first time.

  • This update automatically refreshes the catalog every 30 minutes by calling the catalog refresh API job. This interval is user-configurable.

Pipelines as Code

Pipelines as Code (PAC) is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.

For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.

  • With this update, as a developer, you get a notification from the tkn-pac CLI tool if you try to add a duplicate repository to a Pipelines as Code run. When you enter tkn pac create repository, each repository must have a unique URL. This notification also helps prevent hijacking exploits.

  • With this update, as a developer, you can use the new tkn-pac setup cli command to add a Git repository to Pipelines as Code by using the webhook mechanism. This way, you can use Pipelines as Code even when using GitHub Apps is not feasible. This capability includes support for repositories on GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code supports GitLab integration with features such as the following:

    • ACL (Access Control List) on project or group

    • /ok-to-test support from allowed users

    • /retest support.

  • With this update, you can perform advanced pipeline filtering with Common Expression Language (CEL). With CEL, you can match pipeline runs with different Git provider events by using annotations in the PipelineRun resource. For example:

      ...
      annotations:
         pipelinesascode.tekton.dev/on-cel-expression: |
          event == "pull_request" && target_branch == "main" && source_branch == "wip"
  • Previously, as a developer, you could have only one pipeline run in your .tekton directory for each Git event, such as a pull request. With this update, you can have multiple pipeline runs in your .tekton directory. The web console displays the status and reports of the runs. The pipeline runs operate in parallel and report back to the Git provider interface.

  • With this update, you can test or retest a pipeline run by commenting /test or /retest on a pull request. You can also specify the pipeline run by name. For example, you can enter /test <pipelinerun_name> or /retest <pipelinerun-name>.

  • With this update, you can delete a repository custom resource and its associated secrets by using the new tkn-pac delete repository command.

Breaking changes

  • This update changes the default metrics level of TaskRun and PipelineRun resources to the following values:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: config-observability
      namespace: tekton-pipelines
      labels:
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: default
        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tekton-pipelines
    data:
      _example: |
      ...
        metrics.taskrun.level: "task"
        metrics.taskrun.duration-type: "histogram"
        metrics.pipelinerun.level: "pipeline"
        metrics.pipelinerun.duration-type: "histogram"
  • With this update, if an annotation or label is present in both Pipeline and PipelineRun resources, the value in the Run type takes precedence. The same is true if an annotation or label is present in Task and TaskRun resources.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the previously deprecated PipelineRun.Spec.ServiceAccountNames field has been removed. Use the PipelineRun.Spec.TaskRunSpecs field instead.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the previously deprecated TaskRun.Status.ResourceResults.ResourceRef field has been removed. Use the TaskRun.Status.ResourceResults.ResourceName field instead.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the previously deprecated Conditions resource type has been removed. Remove the Conditions resource from Pipeline resource definitions that include it. Use when expressions in PipelineRun definitions instead.

  • For Tekton Chains, the tekton-provenance format has been removed in this release. Use the in-toto format by setting "artifacts.taskrun.format": "in-toto" in the TektonChain custom resource instead.

  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.x shipped with Pipelines as Code 0.5.x. The current update ships with Pipelines as Code 0.10.x. This change creates a new route in the openshift-pipelines namespace for the new controller. You must update this route in GitHub Apps or webhooks that use Pipelines as Code. To fetch the route, use the following command:

    $ oc get route -n openshift-pipelines pipelines-as-code-controller \
      --template='https://{{ .spec.host }}'
  • With this update, Pipelines as Code renames the default secret keys for the Repository custom resource definition (CRD). In your CRD, replace token with provider.token, and replace secret with webhook.secret.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code replaces a special template variable with one that supports multiple pipeline runs for private repositories. In your pipeline runs, replace secret: pac-git-basic-auth-{{repo_owner}}-{{repo_name}} with secret: {{ git_auth_secret }}.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code updates the following commands in the tkn-pac CLI tool:

    • Replace tkn pac repository create with tkn pac create repository.

    • Replace tkn pac repository delete with tkn pac delete repository.

    • Replace tkn pac repository list with tkn pac list.

Deprecated and removed features

  • Starting with OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, the preview and stable channels for installing and upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator are removed. To install and upgrade the Operator, use the appropriate pipelines-<version> channel, or the latest channel for the most recent stable version. For example, to install the OpenShift Pipelines Operator version 1.8.x, use the pipelines-1.8 channel.

    In OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 and earlier versions, you can use the preview and stable channels for installing and upgrading the Operator.

  • Support for the tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API version, which was deprecated in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines GA 1.6, is planned to be removed in the upcoming Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines GA 1.9 release.

    This change affects the pipeline component, which includes the TaskRun, PipelineRun, Task, Pipeline, and similar tekton.dev/v1alpha1 resources. As an alternative, update existing resources to use apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1 as described in Migrating From Tekton v1alpha1 to Tekton v1beta1.

    Bug fixes and support for the tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API version are provided only through the end of the current GA 1.8 lifecycle.

    For the Tekton Operator, the operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API version is not deprecated. You do not need to make changes to this value.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the PipelineResource custom resource (CR) is available but no longer supported. The PipelineResource CR was a Tech Preview feature and part of the tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API, which had been deprecated and planned to be removed in the upcoming Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines GA 1.9 release.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the Condition custom resource (CR) is removed. The Condition CR was part of the tekton.dev/v1alpha1 API, which has been deprecated and is planned to be removed in the upcoming Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines GA 1.9 release.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the gcr.io image for gsutil has been removed. This removal might break clusters with Pipeline resources that depend on this image. Bug fixes and support are provided only through the end of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7 lifecycle.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the PipelineRun.Status.TaskRuns and PipelineRun.Status.Runs fields are deprecated and are planned to be removed in a future release. See TEP-0100: Embedded TaskRuns and Runs Status in PipelineRuns.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the pipelineRunCancelled state is deprecated and planned to be removed in a future release. Graceful termination of PipelineRun objects is now promoted from an alpha feature to a stable feature. (See TEP-0058: Graceful Pipeline Run Termination.) As an alternative, you can use the Cancelled state, which replaces the pipelineRunCancelled state.

    You do not need to make changes to your Pipeline and Task resources. If you have tools that cancel pipeline runs, you must update tools in the next release. This change also affects tools such as the CLI, IDE extensions, and so on, so that they support the new PipelineRun statuses.

    Because this feature is available by default, you no longer need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields field to alpha in the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, the timeout field in PipelineRun has been deprecated. Instead, use the PipelineRun.Timeouts field, which is now promoted from an alpha feature to a stable feature.

    Because this feature is available by default, you no longer need to set the pipeline.enable-api-fields field to alpha in the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.8, init containers are omitted from the LimitRange object’s default request calculations.

Known issues

  • The s2i-nodejs pipeline cannot use the nodejs:14-ubi8-minimal image stream to perform source-to-image (S2I) builds. Using that image stream produces an error building at STEP "RUN /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble": exit status 127 message.

    Workaround: Use nodejs:14-ubi8 rather than the nodejs:14-ubi8-minimal image stream.

  • When you run Maven and Jib-Maven cluster tasks, the default container image is supported only on Intel (x86) architecture. Therefore, tasks will fail on ARM, IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) clusters.

    Workaround: Specify a custom image by setting the MAVEN_IMAGE parameter value to maven:3.6.3-adoptopenjdk-11.

    Before you install tasks that are based on the Tekton Catalog on ARM, IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) using tkn hub, verify if the task can be executed on these platforms. To check if ppc64le and s390x are listed in the "Platforms" section of the task information, you can run the following command: tkn hub info task <name>

  • On ARM, IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE, the s2i-dotnet cluster task is unsupported.

  • Implicit parameter mapping incorrectly passes parameters from the top-level Pipeline or PipelineRun definitions to the taskRef tasks. Mapping should only occur from a top-level resource to tasks with in-line taskSpec specifications. This issue only affects clusters where this feature was enabled by setting the enable-api-fields field to alpha in the pipeline section of the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the metrics for pipeline runs in the Developer view of the web console were incomplete and outdated. With this update, the issue has been fixed so that the metrics are correct.

  • Before this update, if a pipeline had two parallel tasks that failed and one of them had retries=2, the final tasks never ran, and the pipeline timed out and failed to run. For example, the pipelines-operator-subscription task failed intermittently with the following error message: Unable to connect to the server: EOF. With this update, the issue has been fixed so that the final tasks always run.

  • Before this update, if a pipeline run stopped because a task run failed, other task runs might not complete their retries. As a result, no finally tasks were scheduled, which caused the pipeline to hang. This update resolves the issue. TaskRuns and Run objects can retry when a pipeline run has stopped, even by graceful stopping, so that pipeline runs can complete.

  • This update changes how resource requirements are calculated when one or more LimitRange objects are present in the namespace where a TaskRun object exists. The scheduler now considers step containers and excludes all other app containers, such as sidecar containers, when factoring requests from LimitRange objects.

  • Before this update, under specific conditions, the flag package might incorrectly parse a subcommand immediately following a double dash flag terminator, --. In that case, it ran the entrypoint subcommand rather than the actual command. This update fixes this flag-parsing issue so that the entrypoint runs the correct command.

  • Before this update, the controller might generate multiple panics if pulling an image failed, or its pull status was incomplete. This update fixes the issue by checking the step.ImageID value rather than the status.TaskSpec value.

  • Before this update, canceling a pipeline run that contained an unscheduled custom task produced a PipelineRunCouldntCancel error. This update fixes the issue. You can cancel a pipeline run that contains an unscheduled custom task without producing that error.

  • Before this update, if the <NAME> in $params["<NAME>"] or $params['<NAME>'] contained a dot character (.), any part of the name to the right of the dot was not extracted. For example, from $params["org.ipsum.lorem"], only org was extracted.

    This update fixes the issue so that $params fetches the complete value. For example, $params["org.ipsum.lorem"] and $params['org.ipsum.lorem'] are valid and the entire value of <NAME>, org.ipsum.lorem, is extracted.

    It also throws an error if <NAME> is not enclosed in single or double quotes. For example, $params.org.ipsum.lorem is not valid and generates a validation error.

  • With this update, Trigger resources support custom interceptors and ensure that the port of the custom interceptor service is the same as the port in the ClusterInterceptor definition file.

  • Before this update, the tkn version command for Tekton Chains and Operator components did not work correctly. This update fixes the issue so that the command works correctly and returns version information for those components.

  • Before this update, if you ran a tkn pr delete --ignore-running command and a pipeline run did not have a status.condition value, the tkn CLI tool produced a null-pointer error (NPE). This update fixes the issue so that the CLI tool now generates an error and correctly ignores pipeline runs that are still running.

  • Before this update, if you used the tkn pr delete --keep <value> or tkn tr delete --keep <value> commands, and the number of pipeline runs or task runs was less than the value, the command did not return an error as expected. This update fixes the issue so that the command correctly returns an error under those conditions.

  • Before this update, if you used the tkn pr delete or tkn tr delete commands with the -p or -t flags together with the --ignore-running flag, the commands incorrectly deleted running or pending resources. This update fixes the issue so that these commands correctly ignore running or pending resources.

  • With this update, you can configure Tekton Chains by using the TektonChain custom resource. This feature enables your configuration to persist after upgrading, unlike the chains-config config map, which gets overwritten during upgrades.

  • With this update, ClusterTask resources no longer run as root by default, except for the buildah and s2i cluster tasks.

  • Before this update, tasks on Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.1 failed when using init as a first argument followed by two or more arguments. With this update, the flags are parsed correctly, and the task runs are successful.

  • Before this update, installation of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 and 4.10 failed due to an invalid role binding, with the following error message:

    error updating rolebinding openshift-operators-prometheus-k8s-read-binding: RoleBinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    "openshift-operators-prometheus-k8s-read-binding" is invalid:
    roleRef: Invalid value: rbac.RoleRef{APIGroup:"rbac.authorization.k8s.io", Kind:"Role", Name:"openshift-operator-read"}: cannot change roleRef

    This update fixes the issue so that the failure no longer occurs.

  • Previously, upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator caused the pipeline service account to be recreated, which meant that the secrets linked to the service account were lost. This update fixes the issue. During upgrades, the Operator no longer recreates the pipeline service account. As a result, secrets attached to the pipeline service account persist after upgrades, and the resources (tasks and pipelines) continue to work correctly.

  • With this update, Pipelines as Code pods run on infrastructure nodes if infrastructure node settings are configured in the TektonConfig custom resource (CR).

  • Previously, with the resource pruner, each namespace Operator created a command that ran in a separate container. This design consumed too many resources in clusters with a high number of namespaces. For example, to run a single command, a cluster with 1000 namespaces produced 1000 containers in a pod.

    This update fixes the issue. It passes the namespace-based configuration to the job so that all the commands run in one container in a loop.

  • In Tekton Chains, you must define a secret called signing-secrets to hold the key used for signing tasks and images. However, before this update, updating the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator reset or overwrote this secret, and the key was lost. This update fixes the issue. Now, if the secret is configured after installing Tekton Chains through the Operator, the secret persists, and it is not overwritten by upgrades.

  • Before this update, all S2I build tasks failed with an error similar to the following message:

    Error: error writing "0 0 4294967295\n" to /proc/22/uid_map: write /proc/22/uid_map: operation not permitted
    time="2022-03-04T09:47:57Z" level=error msg="error writing \"0 0 4294967295\\n\" to /proc/22/uid_map: write /proc/22/uid_map: operation not permitted"
    time="2022-03-04T09:47:57Z" level=error msg="(unable to determine exit status)"

    With this update, the pipelines-scc security context constraint (SCC) is compatible with the SETFCAP capability necessary for Buildah and S2I cluster tasks. As a result, the Buildah and S2I build tasks can run successfully.

    To successfully run the Buildah cluster task and S2I build tasks for applications written in various languages and frameworks, add the following snippet for appropriate steps objects such as build and push:

    securityContext:
      capabilities:
        add: ["SETFCAP"]
  • Before this update, installing the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator took longer than expected. This update optimizes some settings to speed up the installation process.

  • With this update, Buildah and S2I cluster tasks have fewer steps than in previous versions. Some steps have been combined into a single step so that they work better with ResourceQuota and LimitRange objects and do not require more resources than necessary.

  • This update upgrades the Buildah, tkn CLI tool, and skopeo CLI tool versions in cluster tasks.

  • Before this update, the Operator failed when creating RBAC resources if any namespace was in a Terminating state. With this update, the Operator ignores namespaces in a Terminating state and creates the RBAC resources.

  • Before this update, pods for the prune cronjobs were not scheduled on infrastructure nodes, as expected. Instead, they were scheduled on worker nodes or not scheduled at all. With this update, these types of pods can now be scheduled on infrastructure nodes if configured in the TektonConfig custom resource (CR).

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.8.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.8.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12.

Known issues

  • By default, the containers have restricted permissions for enhanced security. The restricted permissions apply to all controller pods in the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator, and to some cluster tasks. Due to restricted permissions, the git-clone cluster task fails under certain configurations.

    Workaround: None. You can track the issue SRVKP-2634.

  • When installer sets are in a failed state, the status of the TektonConfig custom resource is incorrectly displayed as True instead of False.

    Example: Failed installer sets
    $ oc get tektoninstallerset
    NAME                                     READY   REASON
    addon-clustertasks-nx5xz                 False   Error
    addon-communityclustertasks-cfb2p        True
    addon-consolecli-ftrb8                   True
    addon-openshift-67dj2                    True
    addon-pac-cf7pz                          True
    addon-pipelines-fvllm                    True
    addon-triggers-b2wtt                     True
    addon-versioned-clustertasks-1-8-hqhnw   False   Error
    pipeline-w75ww                           True
    postpipeline-lrs22                       True
    prepipeline-ldlhw                        True
    rhosp-rbac-4dmgb                         True
    trigger-hfg64                            True
    validating-mutating-webhoook-28rf7       True
    Example: Incorrect TektonConfig status
    $ oc get tektonconfig config
    NAME     VERSION   READY   REASON
    config   1.8.1     True

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the pruner deleted task runs of running pipelines and displayed the following warning: some tasks were indicated completed without ancestors being done. With this update, the pruner retains the task runs that are part of running pipelines.

  • Before this update, pipeline-1.8 was the default channel for installing the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.8.x. With this update, latest is the default channel.

  • Before this update, the Pipelines as Code controller pods did not have access to certificates exposed by the user. With this update, Pipelines as Code can now access routes and Git repositories guarded by a self-signed or a custom certificate.

  • Before this update, the task failed with RBAC errors after upgrading from Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.2 to 1.8.0. With this update, the tasks run successfully without any RBAC errors.

  • Before this update, using the tkn CLI tool, you could not remove task runs and pipeline runs that contained a result object whose type was array. With this update, you can use the tkn CLI tool to remove task runs and pipeline runs that contain a result object whose type is array.

  • Before this update, if a pipeline specification contained a task with an ENV_VARS parameter of array type, the pipeline run failed with the following error: invalid input params for task func-buildpacks: param types don’t match the user-specified type: [ENV_VARS]. With this update, pipeline runs with such pipeline and task specifications do not fail.

  • Before this update, cluster administrators could not provide a config.json file to the Buildah cluster task for accessing a container registry. With this update, cluster administrators can provide the Buildah cluster task with a config.json file by using the dockerconfig workspace.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.8.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.8.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the git-clone task failed when cloning a repository using SSH keys. With this update, the role of the non-root user in the git-init task is removed, and the SSH program looks in the $HOME/.ssh/ directory for the correct keys.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.7

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.7 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.

Pipelines

  • With this update, pipelines-<version> is the default channel to install the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. For example, the default channel to install the OpenShift Pipelines Operator version 1.7 is pipelines-1.7. Cluster administrators can also use the latest channel to install the most recent stable version of the Operator.

    The preview and stable channels will be deprecated and removed in a future release.

  • When you run a command in a user namespace, your container runs as root (user id 0) but has user privileges on the host. With this update, to run pods in the user namespace, you must pass the annotations that CRI-O expects.

    • To add these annotations for all users, run the oc edit clustertask buildah command and edit the buildah cluster task.

    • To add the annotations to a specific namespace, export the cluster task as a task to that namespace.

  • Before this update, if certain conditions were not met, the when expression skipped a Task object and its dependent tasks. With this update, you can scope the when expression to guard the Task object only, not its dependent tasks. To enable this update, set the scope-when-expressions-to-task flag to true in the TektonConfig CRD.

    The scope-when-expressions-to-task flag is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. As a best practice for OpenShift Pipelines, use when expressions scoped to the guarded Task only.

  • With this update, you can use variable substitution in the subPath field of a workspace within a task.

  • With this update, you can reference parameters and results by using a bracket notation with single or double quotes. Prior to this update, you could only use the dot notation. For example, the following are now equivalent:

    • $(param.myparam), $(param['myparam']), and $(param["myparam"]).

      You can use single or double quotes to enclose parameter names that contain problematic characters, such as ".". For example, $(param['my.param']) and $(param["my.param"]).

  • With this update, you can include the onError parameter of a step in the task definition without enabling the enable-api-fields flag.

Triggers

  • With this update, the feature-flag-triggers config map has a new field labels-exclusion-pattern. You can set the value of this field to a regular expression (regex) pattern. The controller filters out labels that match the regex pattern from propagating from the event listener to the resources created for the event listener.

  • With this update, the TriggerGroups field is added to the EventListener specification. Using this field, you can specify a set of interceptors to run before selecting and running a group of triggers. To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

  • With this update, Trigger resources support custom runs defined by a TriggerTemplate template.

  • With this update, Triggers support emitting Kubernetes events from an EventListener pod.

  • With this update, count metrics are available for the following objects: ClusterInteceptor, EventListener, TriggerTemplate, ClusterTriggerBinding, and TriggerBinding.

  • This update adds the ServicePort specification to Kubernetes resource. You can use this specification to modify which port exposes the event listener service. The default port is 8080.

  • With this update, you can use the targetURI field in the EventListener specification to send cloud events during trigger processing. To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

  • With this update, the tekton-triggers-eventlistener-roles object now has a patch verb, in addition to the create verb that already exists.

  • With this update, the securityContext.runAsUser parameter is removed from event listener deployment.

CLI

  • With this update, the tkn [pipeline | pipelinerun] export command exports a pipeline or pipeline run as a YAML file. For example:

    • Export a pipeline named test_pipeline in the openshift-pipelines namespace:

      $ tkn pipeline export test_pipeline -n openshift-pipelines
    • Export a pipeline run named test_pipeline_run in the openshift-pipelines namespace:

      $ tkn pipelinerun export test_pipeline_run -n openshift-pipelines
  • With this update, the --grace option is added to the tkn pipelinerun cancel. Use the --grace option to terminate a pipeline run gracefully instead of forcing the termination. To enable this feature, in the TektonConfig custom resource definition, in the pipeline section, you must set the enable-api-fields field to alpha.

  • This update adds the Operator and Chains versions to the output of the tkn version command.

    Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature.

  • With this update, the tkn pipelinerun describe command displays all canceled task runs, when you cancel a pipeline run. Before this fix, only one task run was displayed.

  • With this update, you can skip supplying the asking specifications for optional workspace when you run the tkn [t | p | ct] start command skips with the --skip-optional-workspace flag. You can also skip it when running in interactive mode.

  • With this update, you can use the tkn chains command to manage Tekton Chains. You can also use the --chains-namespace option to specify the namespace where you want to install Tekton Chains.

    Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature.

Operator

  • With this update, you can use the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator to install and deploy Tekton Hub and Tekton Chains.

    Tekton Chains and deployment of Tekton Hub on a cluster are Technology Preview features.

  • With this update, you can find and use Pipelines as Code (PAC) as an add-on option.

    Pipelines as Code is a Technology Preview feature.

  • With this update, you can now disable the installation of community cluster tasks by setting the communityClusterTasks parameter to false. For example:

    ...
    spec:
      profile: all
      targetNamespace: openshift-pipelines
      addon:
        params:
        - name: clusterTasks
          value: "true"
        - name: pipelineTemplates
          value: "true"
        - name: communityClusterTasks
          value: "false"
    ...
  • With this update, you can disable the integration of Tekton Hub with the Developer perspective by setting the enable-devconsole-integration flag in the TektonConfig custom resource to false. For example:

    ...
    hub:
      params:
        - name: enable-devconsole-integration
          value: "true"
    ...
  • With this update, the operator-config.yaml config map enables the output of the tkn version command to display of the Operator version.

  • With this update, the version of the argocd-task-sync-and-wait tasks is modified to v0.2.

  • With this update to the TektonConfig CRD, the oc get tektonconfig command displays the OPerator version.

  • With this update, service monitor is added to the Triggers metrics.

Hub

Deploying Tekton Hub on a cluster is a Technology Preview feature.

Tekton Hub helps you discover, search, and share reusable tasks and pipelines for your CI/CD workflows. A public instance of Tekton Hub is available at hub.tekton.dev.

Staring with Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7, cluster administrators can also install and deploy a custom instance of Tekton Hub on enterprise clusters. You can curate a catalog with reusable tasks and pipelines specific to your organization.

Chains

Tekton Chains is a Technology Preview feature.

Tekton Chains is a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) controller. You can use it to manage the supply chain security of the tasks and pipelines created using Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines.

By default, Tekton Chains monitors the task runs in your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. Chains takes snapshots of completed task runs, converts them to one or more standard payload formats, and signs and stores all artifacts.

Tekton Chains supports the following features:

  • You can sign task runs, task run results, and OCI registry images with cryptographic key types and services such as cosign.

  • You can use attestation formats such as in-toto.

  • You can securely store signatures and signed artifacts using OCI repository as a storage backend.

Pipelines as Code (PAC)

Pipelines as Code is a Technology Preview feature.

With Pipelines as Code, cluster administrators and users with the required privileges can define pipeline templates as part of source code Git repositories. When triggered by a source code push or a pull request for the configured Git repository, the feature runs the pipeline and reports status.

Pipelines as Code supports the following features:

  • Pull request status. When iterating over a pull request, the status and control of the pull request is exercised on the platform hosting the Git repository.

  • GitHub checks the API to set the status of a pipeline run, including rechecks.

  • GitHub pull request and commit events.

  • Pull request actions in comments, such as /retest.

  • Git events filtering, and a separate pipeline for each event.

  • Automatic task resolution in OpenShift Pipelines for local tasks, Tekton Hub, and remote URLs.

  • Use of GitHub blobs and objects API for retrieving configurations.

  • Access Control List (ACL) over a GitHub organization, or using a Prow-style OWNER file.

  • The tkn pac plugin for the tkn CLI tool, which you can use to manage Pipelines as Code repositories and bootstrapping.

  • Support for GitHub Application, GitHub Webhook, Bitbucket Server, and Bitbucket Cloud.

Deprecated features

  • Breaking change: This update removes the disable-working-directory-overwrite and disable-home-env-overwrite fields from the TektonConfig custom resource (CR). As a result, the TektonConfig CR no longer automatically sets the $HOME environment variable and workingDir parameter. You can still set the $HOME environment variable and workingDir parameter by using the env and workingDir fields in the Task custom resource definition (CRD).

  • The Conditions custom resource definition (CRD) type is deprecated and planned to be removed in a future release. Instead, use the recommended When expression.

  • Breaking change: The Triggers resource validates the templates and generates an error if you do not specify the EventListener and TriggerBinding values.

Known issues

  • When you run Maven and Jib-Maven cluster tasks, the default container image is supported only on Intel (x86) architecture. Therefore, tasks will fail on ARM, IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) clusters. As a workaround, you can specify a custom image by setting the MAVEN_IMAGE parameter value to maven:3.6.3-adoptopenjdk-11.

    Before you install tasks that are based on the Tekton Catalog on ARM, IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) using tkn hub, verify if the task can be executed on these platforms. To check if ppc64le and s390x are listed in the "Platforms" section of the task information, you can run the following command: tkn hub info task <name>

  • On IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE, the s2i-dotnet cluster task is unsupported.

  • You cannot use the nodejs:14-ubi8-minimal image stream because doing so generates the following errors:

    STEP 7: RUN /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble
    /bin/sh: /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble: No such file or directory
    subprocess exited with status 127
    subprocess exited with status 127
    error building at STEP "RUN /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble": exit status 127
    time="2021-11-04T13:05:26Z" level=error msg="exit status 127"
  • Implicit parameter mapping incorrectly passes parameters from the top-level Pipeline or PipelineRun definitions to the taskRef tasks. Mapping should only occur from a top-level resource to tasks with in-line taskSpec specifications. This issue only affects clusters where this feature was enabled by setting the enable-api-fields field to alpha in the pipeline section of the TektonConfig custom resource definition.

Fixed issues

  • With this update, if metadata such as labels and annotations are present in both Pipeline and PipelineRun object definitions, the values in the PipelineRun type takes precedence. You can observe similar behavior for Task and TaskRun objects.

  • With this update, if the timeouts.tasks field or the timeouts.finally field is set to 0, then the timeouts.pipeline is also set to 0.

  • With this update, the -x set flag is removed from scripts that do not use a shebang. The fix reduces potential data leak from script execution.

  • With this update, any backslash character present in the usernames in Git credentials is escaped with an additional backslash in the .gitconfig file.

  • With this update, the finalizer property of the EventListener object is not necessary for cleaning up logging and config maps.

  • With this update, the default HTTP client associated with the event listener server is removed, and a custom HTTP client added. As a result, the timeouts have improved.

  • With this update, the Triggers cluster role now works with owner references.

  • With this update, the race condition in the event listener does not happen when multiple interceptors return extensions.

  • With this update, the tkn pr delete command does not delete the pipeline runs with the ignore-running flag.

  • With this update, the Operator pods do not continue restarting when you modify any add-on parameters.

  • With this update, the tkn serve CLI pod is scheduled on infra nodes, if not configured in the subscription and config custom resources.

  • With this update, cluster tasks with specified versions are not deleted during upgrade.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.7.1

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.7.1 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator deleted the data in the database associated with Tekton Hub and installed a new database. With this update, an Operator upgrade preserves the data.

  • Before this update, only cluster administrators could access pipeline metrics in the OpenShift Container Platform console. With this update, users with other cluster roles also can access the pipeline metrics.

  • Before this update, pipeline runs failed for pipelines containing tasks that emit large termination messages. The pipeline runs failed because the total size of termination messages of all containers in a pod cannot exceed 12 KB. With this update, the place-tools and step-init initialization containers that uses the same image are merged to reduce the number of containers running in each tasks’s pod. The solution reduces the chance of failed pipeline runs by minimizing the number of containers running in a task’s pod. However, it does not remove the limitation of the maximum allowed size of a termination message.

  • Before this update, attempts to access resource URLs directly from the Tekton Hub web console resulted in an Nginx 404 error. With this update, the Tekton Hub web console image is fixed to allow accessing resource URLs directly from the Tekton Hub web console.

  • Before this update, for each namespace the resource pruner job created a separate container to prune resources. With this update, the resource pruner job runs commands for all namespaces as a loop in one container.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.7.2

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.7.2 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9, 4.10, and the upcoming version.

Known issues

  • The chains-config config map for Tekton Chains in the openshift-pipelines namespace is automatically reset to default after upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. Currently, there is no workaround for this issue.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, tasks on OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.1 failed on using init as the first argument, followed by two or more arguments. With this update, the flags are parsed correctly and the task runs are successful.

  • Before this update, installation of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 and 4.10 failed due to invalid role binding, with the following error message:

    error updating rolebinding openshift-operators-prometheus-k8s-read-binding: RoleBinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "openshift-operators-prometheus-k8s-read-binding" is invalid: roleRef: Invalid value: rbac.RoleRef{APIGroup:"rbac.authorization.k8s.io", Kind:"Role", Name:"openshift-operator-read"}: cannot change roleRef

    With this update, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator installs with distinct role binding namespaces to avoid conflict with installation of other Operators.

  • Before this update, upgrading the Operator triggered a reset of the signing-secrets secret key for Tekton Chains to its default value. With this update, the custom secret key persists after you upgrade the Operator.

    Upgrading to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.7.2 resets the key. However, when you upgrade to future releases, the key is expected to persist.

  • Before this update, all S2I build tasks failed with an error similar to the following message:

    Error: error writing "0 0 4294967295\n" to /proc/22/uid_map: write /proc/22/uid_map: operation not permitted
    time="2022-03-04T09:47:57Z" level=error msg="error writing \"0 0 4294967295\\n\" to /proc/22/uid_map: write /proc/22/uid_map: operation not permitted"
    time="2022-03-04T09:47:57Z" level=error msg="(unable to determine exit status)"

    With this update, the pipelines-scc security context constraint (SCC) is compatible with the SETFCAP capability necessary for Buildah and S2I cluster tasks. As a result, the Buildah and S2I build tasks can run successfully.

    To successfully run the Buildah cluster task and S2I build tasks for applications written in various languages and frameworks, add the following snippet for appropriate steps objects such as build and push:

    securityContext:
      capabilities:
        add: ["SETFCAP"]

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.7.3

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.7.3 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9, 4.10, and 4.11.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the Operator failed when creating RBAC resources if any namespace was in a Terminating state. With this update, the Operator ignores namespaces in a Terminating state and creates the RBAC resources.

  • Previously, upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator caused the pipeline service account to be recreated, which meant that the secrets linked to the service account were lost. This update fixes the issue. During upgrades, the Operator no longer recreates the pipeline service account. As a result, secrets attached to the pipeline service account persist after upgrades, and the resources (tasks and pipelines) continue to work correctly.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.6

With this update, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.6 is available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.

  • With this update, you can configure a pipeline or task start command to return a YAML or JSON-formatted string by using the --output <string>, where <string> is yaml or json. Otherwise, without the --output option, the start command returns a human-friendly message that is hard for other programs to parse. Returning a YAML or JSON-formatted string is useful for continuous integration (CI) environments. For example, after a resource is created, you can use yq or jq to parse the YAML or JSON-formatted message about the resource and wait until that resource is terminated without using the showlog option.

  • With this update, you can authenticate to a registry using the auth.json authentication file of Podman. For example, you can use tkn bundle push to push to a remote registry using Podman instead of Docker CLI.

  • With this update, if you use the tkn [taskrun | pipelinerun] delete --all command, you can preserve runs that are younger than a specified number of minutes by using the new --keep-since <minutes> option. For example, to keep runs that are less than five minutes old, you enter tkn [taskrun | pipelinerun] delete -all --keep-since 5.

  • With this update, when you delete task runs or pipeline runs, you can use the --parent-resource and --keep-since options together. For example, the tkn pipelinerun delete --pipeline pipelinename --keep-since 5 command preserves pipeline runs whose parent resource is named pipelinename and whose age is five minutes or less. The tkn tr delete -t <taskname> --keep-since 5 and tkn tr delete --clustertask <taskname> --keep-since 5 commands work similarly for task runs.

  • This update adds support for the triggers resources to work with v1beta1 resources.

  • This update adds an ignore-running option to the tkn pipelinerun delete and tkn taskrun delete commands.

  • This update adds a create subcommand to the tkn task and tkn clustertask commands.

  • With this update, when you use the tkn pipelinerun delete --all command, you can use the new --label <string> option to filter the pipeline runs by label. Optionally, you can use the --label option with = and == as equality operators, or != as an inequality operator. For example, the tkn pipelinerun delete --all --label asdf and tkn pipelinerun delete --all --label==asdf commands both delete all the pipeline runs that have the asdf label.

  • With this update, you can fetch the version of installed Tekton components from the config map or, if the config map is not present, from the deployment controller.

  • With this update, triggers support the feature-flags and config-defaults config map to configure feature flags and to set default values respectively.

  • This update adds a new metric, eventlistener_event_count, that you can use to count events received by the EventListener resource.

  • This update adds v1beta1 Go API types. With this update, triggers now support the v1beta1 API version.

    With the current release, the v1alpha1 features are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Begin using the v1beta1 features instead.

  • In the current release, auto-prunning of resources is enabled by default. In addition, you can configure auto-prunning of task run and pipeline run for each namespace separately, by using the following new annotations:

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.schedule: If the value of this annotation is different from the value specified at the TektonConfig custom resource definition, a new cron job in that namespace is created.

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.skip: When set to true, the namespace for which it is configured will not be prunned.

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.resources: This annotation accepts a comma-separated list of resources. To prune a single resource such as a pipeline run, set this annotation to "pipelinerun". To prune multiple resources, such as task run and pipeline run, set this annotation to "taskrun, pipelinerun".

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.keep: Use this annotation to retain a resource without prunning.

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.keep-since: Use this annotation to retain resources based on their age. The value for this annotation must be equal to the age of the resource in minutes. For example, to retain resources which were created not more than five days ago, set keep-since to 7200.

      The keep and keep-since annotations are mutually exclusive. For any resource, you must configure only one of them.

    • operator.tekton.dev/prune.strategy: Set the value of this annotation to either keep or keep-since.

  • Administrators can disable the creation of the pipeline service account for the entire cluster, and prevent privilege escalation by misusing the associated SCC, which is very similar to anyuid.

  • You can now configure feature flags and components by using the TektonConfig custom resource (CR) and the CRs for individual components, such as TektonPipeline and TektonTriggers. This level of granularity helps customize and test alpha features such as the Tekton OCI bundle for individual components.

  • You can now configure optional Timeouts field for the PipelineRun resource. For example, you can configure timeouts separately for a pipeline run, each task run, and the finally tasks.

  • The pods generated by the TaskRun resource now sets the activeDeadlineSeconds field of the pods. This enables OpenShift to consider them as terminating, and allows you to use specifically scoped ResourceQuota object for the pods.

  • You can use configmaps to eliminate metrics tags or labels type on a task run, pipeline run, task, and pipeline. In addition, you can configure different types of metrics for measuring duration, such as a histogram, gauge, or last value.

  • You can define requests and limits on a pod coherently, as Tekton now fully supports the LimitRange object by considering the Min, Max, Default, and DefaultRequest fields.

  • The following alpha features are introduced:

    • A pipeline run can now stop after running the finally tasks, rather than the previous behavior of stopping the execution of all task run directly. This update adds the following spec.status values:

      • StoppedRunFinally will stop the currently running tasks after they are completed, and then run the finally tasks.

      • CancelledRunFinally will immediately cancel the running tasks, and then run the finally tasks.

      • Cancelled will retain the previous behavior provided by the PipelineRunCancelled status.

        The Cancelled status replaces the deprecated PipelineRunCancelled status, which will be removed in the v1 version.

    • You can now use the oc debug command to put a task run into debug mode, which pauses the execution and allows you to inspect specific steps in a pod.

    • When you set the onError field of a step to continue, the exit code for the step is recorded and passed on to subsequent steps. However, the task run does not fail and the execution of the rest of the steps in the task continues. To retain the existing behavior, you can set the value of the onError field to stopAndFail.

    • Tasks can now accept more parameters than are actually used. When the alpha feature flag is enabled, the parameters can implicitly propagate to inlined specs. For example, an inlined task can access parameters of its parent pipeline run, without explicitly defining each parameter for the task.

    • If you enable the flag for the alpha features, the conditions under When expressions will only apply to the task with which it is directly associated, and not the dependents of the task. To apply the When expressions to the associated task and its dependents, you must associate the expression with each dependent task separately. Note that, going forward, this will be the default behavior of the When expressions in any new API versions of Tekton. The existing default behavior will be deprecated in favor of this update.

  • The current release enables you to configure node selection by specifying the nodeSelector and tolerations values in the TektonConfig custom resource (CR). The Operator adds these values to all the deployments that it creates.

    • To configure node selection for the Operator’s controller and webhook deployment, you edit the config.nodeSelector and config.tolerations fields in the specification for the Subscription CR, after installing the Operator.

    • To deploy the rest of the control plane pods of OpenShift Pipelines on an infrastructure node, update the TektonConfig CR with the nodeSelector and tolerations fields. The modifications are then applied to all the pods created by Operator.

Deprecated features

  • In CLI 0.21.0, support for all v1alpha1 resources for clustertask, task, taskrun, pipeline, and pipelinerun commands are deprecated. These resources are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

  • In Tekton Triggers v0.16.0, the redundant status label is removed from the metrics for the EventListener resource.

    Breaking change: The status label has been removed from the eventlistener_http_duration_seconds_* metric. Remove queries that are based on the status label.

  • With the current release, the v1alpha1 features are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. With this update, you can begin using the v1beta1 Go API types instead. Triggers now supports the v1beta1 API version.

  • With the current release, the EventListener resource sends a response before the triggers finish processing.

    Breaking change: With this change, the EventListener resource stops responding with a 201 Created status code when it creates resources. Instead, it responds with a 202 Accepted response code.

  • The current release removes the podTemplate field from the EventListener resource.

    Breaking change: The podTemplate field, which was deprecated as part of #1100, has been removed.

  • The current release removes the deprecated replicas field from the specification for the EventListener resource.

    Breaking change: The deprecated replicas field has been removed.

  • In Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6, the values of HOME="/tekton/home" and workingDir="/workspace" are removed from the specification of the Step objects.

    Instead, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines sets HOME and workingDir to the values defined by the containers running the Step objects. You can override these values in the specification of your Step objects.

    To use the older behavior, you can change the disable-working-directory-overwrite and disable-home-env-overwrite fields in the TektonConfig CR to false:

    apiVersion: operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
      kind: TektonConfig
      metadata:
        name: config
      spec:
        pipeline:
          disable-working-directory-overwrite: false
          disable-home-env-overwrite: false
      ...

    The disable-working-directory-overwrite and disable-home-env-overwrite fields in the TektonConfig CR are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Known issues

  • When you run Maven and Jib-Maven cluster tasks, the default container image is supported only on Intel (x86) architecture. Therefore, tasks will fail on IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) clusters. As a workaround, you can specify a custom image by setting the MAVEN_IMAGE parameter value to maven:3.6.3-adoptopenjdk-11.

  • On IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE, the s2i-dotnet cluster task is unsupported.

  • Before you install tasks based on the Tekton Catalog on IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) using tkn hub, verify if the task can be executed on these platforms. To check if ppc64le and s390x are listed in the "Platforms" section of the task information, you can run the following command: tkn hub info task <name>

  • You cannot use the nodejs:14-ubi8-minimal image stream because doing so generates the following errors:

    STEP 7: RUN /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble
    /bin/sh: /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble: No such file or directory
    subprocess exited with status 127
    subprocess exited with status 127
    error building at STEP "RUN /usr/libexec/s2i/assemble": exit status 127
    time="2021-11-04T13:05:26Z" level=error msg="exit status 127"

Fixed issues

  • The tkn hub command is now supported on IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE.

  • Before this update, the terminal was not available after the user ran a tkn command, and the pipeline run was done, even if retries were specified. Specifying a timeout in the task run or pipeline run had no effect. This update fixes the issue so that the terminal is available after running the command.

  • Before this update, running tkn pipelinerun delete --all would delete all resources. This update prevents the resources in the running state from getting deleted.

  • Before this update, using the tkn version --component=<component> command did not return the component version. This update fixes the issue so that this command returns the component version.

  • Before this update, when you used the tkn pr logs command, it displayed the pipelines output logs in the wrong task order. This update resolves the issue so that logs of completed PipelineRuns are listed in the appropriate TaskRun execution order.

  • Before this update, editing the specification of a running pipeline might prevent the pipeline run from stopping when it was complete. This update fixes the issue by fetching the definition only once and then using the specification stored in the status for verification. This change reduces the probability of a race condition when a PipelineRun or a TaskRun refers to a Pipeline or Task that changes while it is running.

  • When expression values can now have array parameter references, such as: values: [$(params.arrayParam[*])].

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.6.1

Known issues

  • After upgrading to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.1 from an older version, OpenShift Pipelines might enter an inconsistent state where you are unable to perform any operations (create/delete/apply) on Tekton resources (tasks and pipelines). For example, while deleting a resource, you might encounter the following error:

    Error from server (InternalError): Internal error occurred: failed calling webhook "validation.webhook.pipeline.tekton.dev": Post "https://tekton-pipelines-webhook.openshift-pipelines.svc:443/resource-validation?timeout=10s": service "tekton-pipelines-webhook" not found.

Fixed issues

  • The SSL_CERT_DIR environment variable (/tekton-custom-certs) set by Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines will not override the following default system directories with certificate files:

    • /etc/pki/tls/certs

    • /etc/ssl/certs

    • /system/etc/security/cacerts

  • The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler can manage the replica count of deployments controlled by the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. From this release onward, if the count is changed by an end user or an on-cluster agent, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator will not reset the replica count of deployments managed by it. However, the replicas will be reset when you upgrade the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

  • The pod serving the tkn CLI will now be scheduled on nodes, based on the node selector and toleration limits specified in the TektonConfig custom resource.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.6.2

Known issues

  • When you create a new project, the creation of the pipeline service account is delayed, and removal of existing cluster tasks and pipeline templates takes more than 10 minutes.

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, multiple instances of Tekton installer sets were created for a pipeline after upgrading to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.1 from an older version. With this update, the Operator ensures that only one instance of each type of TektonInstallerSet exists after an upgrade.

  • Before this update, all the reconcilers in the Operator used the component version to decide resource recreation during an upgrade to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.1 from an older version. As a result, those resources were not recreated whose component versions did not change in the upgrade. With this update, the Operator uses the Operator version instead of the component version to decide resource recreation during an upgrade.

  • Before this update, the pipelines webhook service was missing in the cluster after an upgrade. This was due to an upgrade deadlock on the config maps. With this update, a mechanism is added to disable webhook validation if the config maps are absent in the cluster. As a result, the pipelines webhook service persists in the cluster after an upgrade.

  • Before this update, cron jobs for auto-pruning got recreated after any configuration change to the namespace. With this update, cron jobs for auto-pruning get recreated only if there is a relevant annotation change in the namespace.

  • The upstream version of Tekton Pipelines is revised to v0.28.3, which has the following fixes:

    • Fix PipelineRun or TaskRun objects to allow label or annotation propagation.

    • For implicit params:

      • Do not apply the PipelineSpec parameters to the TaskRefs object.

      • Disable implicit param behavior for the Pipeline objects.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.6.3

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator installed pod security policies from components such as Pipelines and Triggers. However, the pod security policies shipped as part of the components were deprecated in an earlier release. With this update, the Operator stops installing pod security policies from components. As a result, the following upgrade paths are affected:

    • Upgrading from OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.1 or 1.6.2 to OpenShift Pipelines 1.6.3 deletes the pod security policies, including those from the Pipelines and Triggers components.

    • Upgrading from OpenShift Pipelines 1.5.x to 1.6.3 retains the pod security policies installed from components. As a cluster administrator, you can delete them manually.

      When you upgrade to future releases, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator will automatically delete all obsolete pod security policies.

  • Before this update, only cluster administrators could access pipeline metrics in the OpenShift Container Platform console. With this update, users with other cluster roles also can access the pipeline metrics.

  • Before this update, role-based access control (RBAC) issues with the OpenShift Pipelines Operator caused problems upgrading or installing components. This update improves the reliability and consistency of installing various Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines components.

  • Before this update, setting the clusterTasks and pipelineTemplates fields to false in the TektonConfig CR slowed the removal of cluster tasks and pipeline templates. This update improves the speed of lifecycle management of Tekton resources such as cluster tasks and pipeline templates.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.6.4

Known issues

  • After upgrading from Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.5.2 to 1.6.4, accessing the event listener routes returns a 503 error.

    Workaround: Modify the target port in the YAML file for the event listener’s route.

    1. Extract the route name for the relevant namespace.

      $ oc get route -n <namespace>
    2. Edit the route to modify the value of the targetPort field.

      $ oc edit route -n <namespace> <el-route_name>
      Example: Existing event listener route
      ...
      spec:
        host: el-event-listener-q8c3w5-test-upgrade1.apps.ve49aws.aws.ospqa.com
        port:
          targetPort: 8000
        to:
          kind: Service
          name: el-event-listener-q8c3w5
          weight: 100
        wildcardPolicy: None
      ...
      Example: Modified event listener route
      ...
      spec:
        host: el-event-listener-q8c3w5-test-upgrade1.apps.ve49aws.aws.ospqa.com
        port:
          targetPort: http-listener
        to:
          kind: Service
          name: el-event-listener-q8c3w5
          weight: 100
        wildcardPolicy: None
      ...

Fixed issues

  • Before this update, the Operator failed when creating RBAC resources if any namespace was in a Terminating state. With this update, the Operator ignores namespaces in a Terminating state and creates the RBAC resources.

  • Before this update, the task runs failed or restarted due to absence of annotation specifying the release version of the associated Tekton controller. With this update, the inclusion of the appropriate annotations are automated, and the tasks run without failure or restarts.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.5

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.5 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.

Compatibility and support matrix

Some features in this release are currently in Technology Preview. These experimental features are not intended for production use.

In the table, features are marked with the following statuses:

TP

Technology Preview

GA

General Availability

Note the following scope of support on the Red Hat Customer Portal for these features:

Table 3. Compatibility and support matrix
Feature Version Support Status

Pipelines

0.24

GA

CLI

0.19

GA

Catalog

0.24

GA

Triggers

0.14

TP

Pipeline resources

-

TP

For questions and feedback, you can send an email to the product team at pipelines-interest@redhat.com.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.5.

  • Pipeline run and task runs will be automatically pruned by a cron job in the target namespace. The cron job uses the IMAGE_JOB_PRUNER_TKN environment variable to get the value of tkn image. With this enhancement, the following fields are introduced to the TektonConfig custom resource:

    ...
    pruner:
      resources:
        - pipelinerun
        - taskrun
      schedule: "*/5 * * * *" # cron schedule
      keep: 2 # delete all keeping n
    ...
  • In OpenShift Container Platform, you can customize the installation of the Tekton Add-ons component by modifying the values of the new parameters clusterTasks and pipelinesTemplates in the TektonConfig custom resource:

    apiVersion: operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: TektonConfig
    metadata:
      name: config
    spec:
      profile: all
      targetNamespace: openshift-pipelines
      addon:
        params:
        - name: clusterTasks
          value: "true"
        - name: pipelineTemplates
          value: "true"
    ...

    The customization is allowed if you create the add-on using TektonConfig, or directly by using Tekton Add-ons. However, if the parameters are not passed, the controller adds parameters with default values.

    • If add-on is created using the TektonConfig custom resource, and you change the parameter values later in the Addon custom resource, then the values in the TektonConfig custom resource overwrites the changes.

    • You can set the value of the pipelinesTemplates parameter to true only when the value of the clusterTasks parameter is true.

  • The enableMetrics parameter is added to the TektonConfig custom resource. You can use it to disable the service monitor, which is part of Tekton Pipelines for OpenShift Container Platform.

    apiVersion: operator.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: TektonConfig
    metadata:
      name: config
    spec:
      profile: all
      targetNamespace: openshift-pipelines
      pipeline:
        params:
        - name: enableMetrics
          value: "true"
    ...
  • Eventlistener OpenCensus metrics, which captures metrics at process level, is added.

  • Triggers now has label selector; you can configure triggers for an event listener using labels.

  • The ClusterInterceptor custom resource definition for registering interceptors is added, which allows you to register new Interceptor types that you can plug in. In addition, the following relevant changes are made:

    • In the trigger specifications, you can configure interceptors using a new API that includes a ref field to refer to a cluster interceptor. In addition, you can use the params field to add parameters that pass on to the interceptors for processing.

    • The bundled interceptors CEL, GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket, have been migrated. They are implemented using the new ClusterInterceptor custom resource definition.

    • Core interceptors are migrated to the new format, and any new triggers created using the old syntax automatically switch to the new ref or params based syntax.

  • To disable prefixing the name of the task or step while displaying logs, use the --prefix option for log commands.

  • To display the version of a specific component, use the new --component flag in the tkn version command.

  • The tkn hub check-upgrade command is added, and other commands are revised to be based on the pipeline version. In addition, catalog names are displayed in the search command output.

  • Support for optional workspaces are added to the start command.

  • If the plugins are not present in the plugins directory, they are searched in the current path.

  • The tkn start [task | clustertask | pipeline] command starts interactively and ask for the params value, even when you specify the default parameters are specified. To stop the interactive prompts, pass the --use-param-defaults flag at the time of invoking the command. For example:

    $ tkn pipeline start build-and-deploy \
        -w name=shared-workspace,volumeClaimTemplateFile=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial/pipelines-1.14/01_pipeline/03_persistent_volume_claim.yaml \
        -p deployment-name=pipelines-vote-api \
        -p git-url=https://github.com/openshift/pipelines-vote-api.git \
        -p IMAGE=image-registry.openshift-image-registry.svc:5000/pipelines-tutorial/pipelines-vote-api \
        --use-param-defaults
  • The version field is added in the tkn task describe command.

  • The option to automatically select resources such as TriggerTemplate, or TriggerBinding, or ClusterTriggerBinding, or Eventlistener, is added in the describe command, if only one is present.

  • In the tkn pr describe command, a section for skipped tasks is added.

  • Support for the tkn clustertask logs is added.

  • The YAML merge and variable from config.yaml is removed. In addition, the release.yaml file can now be more easily consumed by tools such as kustomize and ytt.

  • The support for resource names to contain the dot character (".") is added.

  • The hostAliases array in the PodTemplate specification is added to the pod-level override of hostname resolution. It is achieved by modifying the /etc/hosts file.

  • A variable $(tasks.status) is introduced to access the aggregate execution status of tasks.

  • An entry-point binary build for Windows is added.

Deprecated features

  • In the when expressions, support for fields written is PascalCase is removed. The when expressions only support fields written in lowercase.

    If you had applied a pipeline with when expressions in Tekton Pipelines v0.16 (Operator v1.2.x), you have to reapply it.

  • When you upgrade the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator to v1.5, the openshift-client and the openshift-client-v-1-5-0 cluster tasks have the SCRIPT parameter. However, the ARGS parameter and the git resource are removed from the specification of the openshift-client cluster task. This is a breaking change, and only those cluster tasks that do not have a specific version in the name field of the ClusterTask resource upgrade seamlessly.

    To prevent the pipeline runs from breaking, use the SCRIPT parameter after the upgrade because it moves the values previously specified in the ARGS parameter into the SCRIPT parameter of the cluster task. For example:

    ...
    - name: deploy
      params:
      - name: SCRIPT
        value: oc rollout status <deployment-name>
      runAfter:
        - build
      taskRef:
        kind: ClusterTask
        name: openshift-client
    ...
  • When you upgrade from Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator v1.4 to v1.5, the profile names in which the TektonConfig custom resource is installed now change.

    Table 4. Profiles for TektonConfig custom resource
    Profiles in Pipelines 1.5 Corresponding profile in Pipelines 1.4 Installed Tekton components

    All (default profile)

    All (default profile)

    Pipelines, Triggers, Add-ons

    Basic

    Default

    Pipelines, Triggers

    Lite

    Basic

    Pipelines

    If you used profile: all in the config instance of the TektonConfig custom resource, no change is necessary in the resource specification.

    However, if the installed Operator is either in the Default or the Basic profile before the upgrade, you must edit the config instance of the TektonConfig custom resource after the upgrade. For example, if the configuration was profile: basic before the upgrade, ensure that it is profile: lite after upgrading to Pipelines 1.5.

  • The disable-home-env-overwrite and disable-working-dir-overwrite fields are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. For this release, the default value of these flags is set to true for backward compatibility.

    In the next release (Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.6), the HOME environment variable will not be automatically set to /tekton/home, and the default working directory will not be set to /workspace for task runs. These defaults collide with any value set by image Dockerfile of the step.

  • The ServiceType and podTemplate fields are removed from the EventListener spec.

  • The controller service account no longer requests cluster-wide permission to list and watch namespaces.

  • The status of the EventListener resource has a new condition called Ready.

    In the future, the other status conditions for the EventListener resource will be deprecated in favor of the Ready status condition.

  • The eventListener and namespace fields in the EventListener response are deprecated. Use the eventListenerUID field instead.

  • The replicas field is deprecated from the EventListener spec. Instead, the spec.replicas field is moved to spec.resources.kubernetesResource.replicas in the KubernetesResource spec.

    The replicas field will be removed in a future release.

  • The old method of configuring the core interceptors is deprecated. However, it continues to work until it is removed in a future release. Instead, interceptors in a Trigger resource are now configured using a new ref and params based syntax. The resulting default webhook automatically switch the usages of the old syntax to the new syntax for new triggers.

  • Use rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 instead of the deprecated rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1 for the ClusterRoleBinding resource.

  • In cluster roles, the cluster-wide write access to resources such as serviceaccounts, secrets, configmaps, and limitranges are removed. In addition, cluster-wide access to resources such as deployments, statefulsets, and deployment/finalizers are removed.

  • The image custom resource definition in the caching.internal.knative.dev group is not used by Tekton anymore, and is excluded in this release.

Known issues

  • The git-cli cluster task is built off the alpine/git base image, which expects /root as the user’s home directory. However, this is not explicitly set in the git-cli cluster task.

    In Tekton, the default home directory is overwritten with /tekton/home for every step of a task, unless otherwise specified. This overwriting of the $HOME environment variable of the base image causes the git-cli cluster task to fail.

    This issue is expected to be fixed in the upcoming releases. For Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.5 and earlier versions, you can use any one of the following workarounds to avoid the failure of the git-cli cluster task:

    • Set the $HOME environment variable in the steps, so that it is not overwritten.

      1. [OPTIONAL] If you installed Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines using the Operator, then clone the git-cli cluster task into a separate task. This approach ensures that the Operator does not overwrite the changes made to the cluster task.

      2. Execute the oc edit clustertasks git-cli command.

      3. Add the expected HOME environment variable to the YAML of the step:

        ...
        steps:
          - name: git
            env:
            - name: HOME
              value: /root
            image: $(params.BASE_IMAGE)
            workingDir: $(workspaces.source.path)
        ...

        For Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines installed by the Operator, if you do not clone the git-cli cluster task into a separate task before changing the HOME environment variable, then the changes are overwritten during Operator reconciliation.

    • Disable overwriting the HOME environment variable in the feature-flags config map.

      1. Execute the oc edit -n openshift-pipelines configmap feature-flags command.

      2. Set the value of the disable-home-env-overwrite flag to true.

        • If you installed Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines using the Operator, then the changes are overwritten during Operator reconciliation.

        • Modifying the default value of the disable-home-env-overwrite flag can break other tasks and cluster tasks, as it changes the default behavior for all tasks.

    • Use a different service account for the git-cli cluster task, as the overwriting of the HOME environment variable happens when the default service account for pipelines is used.

      1. Create a new service account.

      2. Link your Git secret to the service account you just created.

      3. Use the service account while executing a task or a pipeline.

  • On IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE, the s2i-dotnet cluster task and the tkn hub command are unsupported.

  • When you run Maven and Jib-Maven cluster tasks, the default container image is supported only on Intel (x86) architecture. Therefore, tasks will fail on IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) clusters. As a workaround, you can specify a custom image by setting the MAVEN_IMAGE parameter value to maven:3.6.3-adoptopenjdk-11.

Fixed issues

  • The when expressions in dag tasks are not allowed to specify the context variable accessing the execution status ($(tasks.<pipelineTask>.status)) of any other task.

  • Use Owner UIDs instead of Owner names, as it helps avoid race conditions created by deleting a volumeClaimTemplate PVC, in situations where a PipelineRun resource is quickly deleted and then recreated.

  • A new Dockerfile is added for pullrequest-init for build-base image triggered by non-root users.

  • When a pipeline or task is executed with the -f option and the param in its definition does not have a type defined, a validation error is generated instead of the pipeline or task run failing silently.

  • For the tkn start [task | pipeline | clustertask] commands, the description of the --workspace flag is now consistent.

  • While parsing the parameters, if an empty array is encountered, the corresponding interactive help is displayed as an empty string now.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability 1.4

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines General Availability (GA) 1.4 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.

In addition to the stable and preview Operator channels, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.4.0 comes with the ocp-4.6, ocp-4.5, and ocp-4.4 deprecated channels. These deprecated channels and support for them will be removed in the following release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines.

Compatibility and support matrix

Some features in this release are currently in Technology Preview. These experimental features are not intended for production use.

In the table, features are marked with the following statuses:

TP

Technology Preview

GA

General Availability

Note the following scope of support on the Red Hat Customer Portal for these features:

Table 5. Compatibility and support matrix
Feature Version Support Status

Pipelines

0.22

GA

CLI

0.17

GA

Catalog

0.22

GA

Triggers

0.12

TP

Pipeline resources

-

TP

For questions and feedback, you can send an email to the product team at pipelines-interest@redhat.com.

New features

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.

  • The custom tasks have the following enhancements:

    • Pipeline results can now refer to results produced by custom tasks.

    • Custom tasks can now use workspaces, service accounts, and pod templates to build more complex custom tasks.

  • The finally task has the following enhancements:

    • The when expressions are supported in finally tasks, which provides efficient guarded execution and improved reusability of tasks.

    • A finally task can be configured to consume the results of any task within the same pipeline.

      Support for when expressions and finally tasks are unavailable in the OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 web console.

  • Support for multiple secrets of the type dockercfg or dockerconfigjson is added for authentication at runtime.

  • Functionality to support sparse-checkout with the git-clone task is added. This enables you to clone only a subset of the repository as your local copy, and helps you to restrict the size of the cloned repositories.

  • You can create pipeline runs in a pending state without actually starting them. In clusters that are under heavy load, this allows Operators to have control over the start time of the pipeline runs.

  • Ensure that you set the SYSTEM_NAMESPACE environment variable manually for the controller; this was previously set by default.

  • A non-root user is now added to the build-base image of pipelines so that git-init can clone repositories as a non-root user.

  • Support to validate dependencies between resolved resources before a pipeline run starts is added. All result variables in the pipeline must be valid, and optional workspaces from a pipeline can only be passed to tasks expecting it for the pipeline to start running.

  • The controller and webhook runs as a non-root group, and their superfluous capabilities have been removed to make them more secure.

  • You can use the tkn pr logs command to see the log streams for retried task runs.

  • You can use the --clustertask option in the tkn tr delete command to delete all the task runs associated with a particular cluster task.

  • Support for using Knative service with the EventListener resource is added by introducing a new customResource field.

  • An error message is displayed when an event payload does not use the JSON format.

  • The source control interceptors such as GitLab, BitBucket, and GitHub, now use the new InterceptorRequest or InterceptorResponse type interface.

  • A new CEL function marshalJSON is implemented so that you can encode a JSON object or an array to a string.

  • An HTTP handler for serving the CEL and the source control core interceptors is added. It packages four core interceptors into a single HTTP server that is deployed in the tekton-pipelines namespace. The EventListener object forwards events over the HTTP server to the interceptor. Each interceptor is available at a different path. For example, the CEL interceptor is available on the /cel path.

  • The pipelines-scc Security Context Constraint (SCC) is used with the default pipeline service account for pipelines. This new service account is similar to anyuid, but with a minor difference as defined in the YAML for SCC of OpenShift Container Platform 4.7:

    fsGroup:
      type: MustRunAs

Deprecated features

  • The build-gcs sub-type in the pipeline resource storage, and the gcs-fetcher image, are not supported.

  • In the taskRun field of cluster tasks, the label tekton.dev/task is removed.

  • For webhooks, the value v1beta1 corresponding to the field admissionReviewVersions is removed.

  • The creds-init helper image for building and deploying is removed.

  • In the triggers spec and binding, the deprecated field template.name is removed in favor of template.ref. You should update all eventListener definitions to use the ref field.

    Upgrade from OpenShift Pipelines 1.3.x and earlier versions to OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.0 breaks event listeners because of the unavailability of the template.name field. For such cases, use OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.1 to avail the restored template.name field.

  • For EventListener custom resources/objects, the fields PodTemplate and ServiceType are deprecated in favor of Resource.

  • The deprecated spec style embedded bindings is removed.

  • The spec field is removed from the triggerSpecBinding.

  • The event ID representation is changed from a five-character random string to a UUID.

Known issues

  • In the Developer perspective, the pipeline metrics and triggers features are available only on OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.6 or later versions.

  • On IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE, the tkn hub command is not supported.

  • When you run Maven and Jib Maven cluster tasks on an IBM Power Systems (ppc64le), IBM Z, and LinuxONE (s390x) clusters, set the MAVEN_IMAGE parameter value to maven:3.6.3-adoptopenjdk-11.

  • Triggers throw error resulting from bad handling of the JSON format, if you have the following configuration in the trigger binding:

    params:
      - name: github_json
        value: $(body)

    To resolve the issue:

    • If you are using triggers v0.11.0 and above, use the marshalJSON CEL function, which takes a JSON object or array and returns the JSON encoding of that object or array as a string.

    • If you are using older triggers version, add the following annotation in the trigger template:

      annotations:
        triggers.tekton.dev/old-escape-quotes: "true"
  • When upgrading from OpenShift Pipelines 1.3.x to 1.4.x, you must recreate the routes.

Fixed issues

  • Previously, the tekton.dev/task label was removed from the task runs of cluster tasks, and the tekton.dev/clusterTask label was introduced. The problems resulting from that change is resolved by fixing the clustertask describe and delete commands. In addition, the lastrun function for tasks is modified, to fix the issue of the tekton.dev/task label being applied to the task runs of both tasks and cluster tasks in older versions of pipelines.

  • When doing an interactive tkn pipeline start pipelinename, a PipelineResource is created interactively. The tkn p start command prints the resource status if the resource status is not nil.

  • Previously, the tekton.dev/task=name label was removed from the task runs created from cluster tasks. This fix modifies the tkn clustertask start command with the --last flag to check for the tekton.dev/task=name label in the created task runs.

  • When a task uses an inline task specification, the corresponding task run now gets embedded in the pipeline when you run the tkn pipeline describe command, and the task name is returned as embedded.

  • The tkn version command is fixed to display the version of the installed Tekton CLI tool, without a configured kubeConfiguration namespace or access to a cluster.

  • If an argument is unexpected or more than one arguments are used, the tkn completion command gives an error.

  • Previously, pipeline runs with the finally tasks nested in a pipeline specification would lose those finally tasks, when converted to the v1alpha1 version and restored back to the v1beta1 version. This error occurring during conversion is fixed to avoid potential data loss. Pipeline runs with the finally tasks nested in a pipeline specification is now serialized and stored on the alpha version, only to be deserialized later.

  • Previously, there was an error in the pod generation when a service account had the secrets field as {}. The task runs failed with CouldntGetTask because the GET request with an empty secret name returned an error, indicating that the resource name may not be empty. This issue is fixed by avoiding an empty secret name in the kubeclient GET request.

  • Pipelines with the v1beta1 API versions can now be requested along with the v1alpha1 version, without losing the finally tasks. Applying the returned v1alpha1 version will store the resource as v1beta1, with the finally section restored to its original state.

  • Previously, an unset selfLink field in the controller caused an error in the Kubernetes v1.20 clusters. As a temporary fix, the CloudEvent source field is set to a value that matches the current source URI, without the value of the auto-populated selfLink field.

  • Previously, a secret name with dots such as gcr.io led to a task run creation failure. This happened because of the secret name being used internally as part of a volume mount name. The volume mount name conforms to the RFC1123 DNS label and disallows dots as part of the name. This issue is fixed by replacing the dot with a dash that results in a readable name.

  • Context variables are now validated in the finally tasks.

  • Previously, when the task run reconciler was passed a task run that did not have a previous status update containing the name of the pod it created, the task run reconciler listed the pods associated with the task run. The task run reconciler used the labels of the task run, which were propagated to the pod, to find the pod. Changing these labels while the task run was running, caused the code to not find the existing pod. As a result, duplicate pods were created. This issue is fixed by changing the task run reconciler to only use the tekton.dev/taskRun Tekton-controlled label when finding the pod.

  • Previously, when a pipeline accepted an optional workspace and passed it to a pipeline task, the pipeline run reconciler stopped with an error if the workspace was not provided, even if a missing workspace binding is a valid state for an optional workspace. This issue is fixed by ensuring that the pipeline run reconciler does not fail to create a task run, even if an optional workspace is not provided.

  • The sorted order of step statuses matches the order of step containers.

  • Previously, the task run status was set to unknown when a pod encountered the CreateContainerConfigError reason, which meant that the task and the pipeline ran until the pod timed out. This issue is fixed by setting the task run status to false, so that the task is set as failed when the pod encounters the CreateContainerConfigError reason.

  • Previously, pipeline results were resolved on the first reconciliation, after a pipeline run was completed. This could fail the resolution resulting in the Succeeded condition of the pipeline run being overwritten. As a result, the final status information was lost, potentially confusing any services watching the pipeline run conditions. This issue is fixed by moving the resolution of pipeline results to the end of a reconciliation, when the pipeline run is put into a Succeeded or True condition.

  • Execution status variable is now validated. This avoids validating task results while validating context variables to access execution status.

  • Previously, a pipeline result that contained an invalid variable would be added to the pipeline run with the literal expression of the variable intact. Therefore, it was difficult to assess whether the results were populated correctly. This issue is fixed by filtering out the pipeline run results that reference failed task runs. Now, a pipeline result that contains an invalid variable will not be emitted by the pipeline run at all.

  • The tkn eventlistener describe command is fixed to avoid crashing without a template. It also displays the details about trigger references.

  • Upgrades from OpenShift Pipelines 1.3.x and earlier versions to OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.0 breaks event listeners because of the unavailability of template.name. In OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.1, the template.name has been restored to avoid breaking event listeners in triggers.

  • In OpenShift Pipelines 1.4.1, the ConsoleQuickStart custom resource has been updated to align with OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 capabilities and behavior.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview 1.3

New features

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview (TP) 1.3 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.7. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines TP 1.3 is updated to support:

  • Tekton Pipelines 0.19.0

  • Tekton tkn CLI 0.15.0

  • Tekton Triggers 0.10.2

  • cluster tasks based on Tekton Catalog 0.19.0

  • IBM Power Systems on OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

  • IBM Z and LinuxONE on OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.3.

Pipelines

  • Tasks that build images, such as S2I and Buildah tasks, now emit a URL of the image built that includes the image SHA.

  • Conditions in pipeline tasks that reference custom tasks are disallowed because the Condition custom resource definition (CRD) has been deprecated.

  • Variable expansion is now added in the Task CRD for the following fields: spec.steps[].imagePullPolicy and spec.sidecar[].imagePullPolicy.

  • You can disable the built-in credential mechanism in Tekton by setting the disable-creds-init feature-flag to true.

  • Resolved when expressions are now listed in the Skipped Tasks and the Task Runs sections in the Status field of the PipelineRun configuration.

  • The git init command can now clone recursive submodules.

  • A Task CR author can now specify a timeout for a step in the Task spec.

  • You can now base the entry point image on the distroless/static:nonroot image and give it a mode to copy itself to the destination, without relying on the cp command being present in the base image.

  • You can now use the configuration flag require-git-ssh-secret-known-hosts to disallow omitting known hosts in the Git SSH secret. When the flag value is set to true, you must include the known_host field in the Git SSH secret. The default value for the flag is false.

  • The concept of optional workspaces is now introduced. A task or pipeline might declare a workspace optional and conditionally change their behavior based on its presence. A task run or pipeline run might also omit that workspace, thereby modifying the task or pipeline behavior. The default task run workspaces are not added in place of an omitted optional workspace.

  • Credentials initialization in Tekton now detects an SSH credential that is used with a non-SSH URL, and vice versa in Git pipeline resources, and logs a warning in the step containers.

  • The task run controller emits a warning event if the affinity specified by the pod template is overwritten by the affinity assistant.

  • The task run reconciler now records metrics for cloud events that are emitted once a task run is completed. This includes retries.

Pipelines CLI

  • Support for --no-headers flag is now added to the following commands: tkn condition list,tkn triggerbinding list,tkn eventlistener list,tkn clustertask list, tkn clustertriggerbinding list.

  • When used together, the --last or --use options override the --prefix-name and --timeout options.

  • The tkn eventlistener logs command is now added to view the EventListener logs.

  • The tekton hub commands are now integrated into the tkn CLI.

  • The --nocolour option is now changed to --no-color.

  • The --all-namespaces flag is added to the following commands: tkn triggertemplate list, tkn condition list, tkn triggerbinding list, tkn eventlistener list.

Triggers

  • You can now specify your resource information in the EventListener template.

  • It is now mandatory for EventListener service accounts to have the list and watch verbs, in addition to the get verb for all the triggers resources. This enables you to use Listers to fetch data from EventListener, Trigger, TriggerBinding, TriggerTemplate, and ClusterTriggerBinding resources. You can use this feature to create a Sink object rather than specifying multiple informers, and directly make calls to the API server.

  • A new Interceptor interface is added to support immutable input event bodies. Interceptors can now add data or fields to a new extensions field, and cannot modify the input bodies making them immutable. The CEL interceptor uses this new Interceptor interface.

  • A namespaceSelector field is added to the EventListener resource. Use it to specify the namespaces from where the EventListener resource can fetch the Trigger object for processing events. To use the namespaceSelector field, the service account for the EventListener resource must have a cluster role.

  • The triggers EventListener resource now supports end-to-end secure connection to the eventlistener pod.

  • The escaping parameters behavior in the TriggerTemplates resource by replacing " with \" is now removed.

  • A new resources field, supporting Kubernetes resources, is introduced as part of the EventListener spec.

  • A new functionality for the CEL interceptor, with support for upper and lower-casing of ASCII strings, is added.

  • You can embed TriggerBinding resources by using the name and value fields in a trigger, or an event listener.

  • The PodSecurityPolicy configuration is updated to run in restricted environments. It ensures that containers must run as non-root. In addition, the role-based access control for using the pod security policy is moved from cluster-scoped to namespace-scoped. This ensures that the triggers cannot use other pod security policies that are unrelated to a namespace.

  • Support for embedded trigger templates is now added. You can either use the name field to refer to an embedded template or embed the template inside the spec field.

Deprecated features

  • Pipeline templates that use PipelineResources CRDs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

  • The template.name field is deprecated in favor of the template.ref field and will be removed in a future release.

  • The -c shorthand for the --check command has been removed. In addition, global tkn flags are added to the version command.

Known issues

  • CEL overlays add fields to a new top-level extensions function, instead of modifying the incoming event body. TriggerBinding resources can access values within this new extensions function using the $(extensions.<key>) syntax. Update your binding to use the $(extensions.<key>) syntax instead of the $(body.<overlay-key>) syntax.

  • The escaping parameters behavior by replacing " with \" is now removed. If you need to retain the old escaping parameters behavior add the tekton.dev/old-escape-quotes: true" annotation to your TriggerTemplate specification.

  • You can embed TriggerBinding resources by using the name and value fields inside a trigger or an event listener. However, you cannot specify both name and ref fields for a single binding. Use the ref field to refer to a TriggerBinding resource and the name field for embedded bindings.

  • An interceptor cannot attempt to reference a secret outside the namespace of an EventListener resource. You must include secrets in the namespace of the `EventListener`resource.

  • In Triggers 0.9.0 and later, if a body or header based TriggerBinding parameter is missing or malformed in an event payload, the default values are used instead of displaying an error.

  • Tasks and pipelines created with WhenExpression objects using Tekton Pipelines 0.16.x must be reapplied to fix their JSON annotations.

  • When a pipeline accepts an optional workspace and gives it to a task, the pipeline run stalls if the workspace is not provided.

  • To use the Buildah cluster task in a disconnected environment, ensure that the Dockerfile uses an internal image stream as the base image, and then use it in the same manner as any S2I cluster task.

Fixed issues

  • Extensions added by a CEL Interceptor are passed on to webhook interceptors by adding the Extensions field within the event body.

  • The activity timeout for log readers is now configurable using the LogOptions field. However, the default behavior of timeout in 10 seconds is retained.

  • The log command ignores the --follow flag when a task run or pipeline run is complete, and reads available logs instead of live logs.

  • References to the following Tekton resources: EventListener, TriggerBinding, ClusterTriggerBinding, Condition, and TriggerTemplate are now standardized and made consistent across all user-facing messages in tkn commands.

  • Previously, if you started a canceled task run or pipeline run with the --use-taskrun <canceled-task-run-name>, --use-pipelinerun <canceled-pipeline-run-name> or --last flags, the new run would be canceled. This bug is now fixed.

  • The tkn pr desc command is now enhanced to ensure that it does not fail in case of pipeline runs with conditions.

  • When you delete a task run using the tkn tr delete command with the --task option, and a cluster task exists with the same name, the task runs for the cluster task also get deleted. As a workaround, filter the task runs by using the TaskRefKind field.

  • The tkn triggertemplate describe command would display only part of the apiVersion value in the output. For example, only triggers.tekton.dev was displayed instead of triggers.tekton.dev/v1alpha1. This bug is now fixed.

  • The webhook, under certain conditions, would fail to acquire a lease and not function correctly. This bug is now fixed.

  • Pipelines with when expressions created in v0.16.3 can now be run in v0.17.1 and later. After an upgrade, you do not need to reapply pipeline definitions created in previous versions because both the uppercase and lowercase first letters for the annotations are now supported.

  • By default, the leader-election-ha field is now enabled for high availability. When the disable-ha controller flag is set to true, it disables high availability support.

  • Issues with duplicate cloud events are now fixed. Cloud events are now sent only when a condition changes the state, reason, or message.

  • When a service account name is missing from a PipelineRun or TaskRun spec, the controller uses the service account name from the config-defaults config map. If the service account name is also missing in the config-defaults config map, the controller now sets it to default in the spec.

  • Validation for compatibility with the affinity assistant is now supported when the same persistent volume claim is used for multiple workspaces, but with different subpaths.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview 1.2

New features

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview (TP) 1.2 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.6. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines TP 1.2 is updated to support:

  • Tekton Pipelines 0.16.3

  • Tekton tkn CLI 0.13.1

  • Tekton Triggers 0.8.1

  • cluster tasks based on Tekton Catalog 0.16

  • IBM Power Systems on OpenShift Container Platform 4.6

  • IBM Z and LinuxONE on OpenShift Container Platform 4.6

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.2.

Pipelines

  • This release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines adds support for a disconnected installation.

    Installations in restricted environments are currently not supported on IBM Power Systems, IBM Z, and LinuxONE.

  • You can now use the when field, instead of conditions resource, to run a task only when certain criteria are met. The key components of WhenExpression resources are Input, Operator, and Values. If all the when expressions evaluate to True, then the task is run. If any of the when expressions evaluate to False, the task is skipped.

  • Step statuses are now updated if a task run is canceled or times out.

  • Support for Git Large File Storage (LFS) is now available to build the base image used by git-init.

  • You can now use the taskSpec field to specify metadata, such as labels and annotations, when a task is embedded in a pipeline.

  • Cloud events are now supported by pipeline runs. Retries with backoff are now enabled for cloud events sent by the cloud event pipeline resource.

  • You can now set a default Workspace configuration for any workspace that a Task resource declares, but that a TaskRun resource does not explicitly provide.

  • Support is available for namespace variable interpolation for the PipelineRun namespace and TaskRun namespace.

  • Validation for TaskRun objects is now added to check that not more than one persistent volume claim workspace is used when a TaskRun resource is associated with an Affinity Assistant. If more than one persistent volume claim workspace is used, the task run fails with a TaskRunValidationFailed condition. Note that by default, the Affinity Assistant is disabled in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, so you will need to enable the assistant to use it.

Pipelines CLI

  • The tkn task describe, tkn taskrun describe, tkn clustertask describe, tkn pipeline describe, and tkn pipelinerun describe commands now:

    • Automatically select the Task, TaskRun, ClusterTask, Pipeline and PipelineRun resource, respectively, if only one of them is present.

    • Display the results of the Task, TaskRun, ClusterTask, Pipeline and PipelineRun resource in their outputs, respectively.

    • Display workspaces declared in the Task, TaskRun, ClusterTask, Pipeline and PipelineRun resource in their outputs, respectively.

  • You can now use the --prefix-name option with the tkn clustertask start command to specify a prefix for the name of a task run.

  • Interactive mode support has now been provided to the tkn clustertask start command.

  • You can now specify PodTemplate properties supported by pipelines using local or remote file definitions for TaskRun and PipelineRun objects.

  • You can now use the --use-params-defaults option with the tkn clustertask start command to use the default values set in the ClusterTask configuration and create the task run.

  • The --use-param-defaults flag for the tkn pipeline start command now prompts the interactive mode if the default values have not been specified for some of the parameters.

Triggers

  • The Common Expression Language (CEL) function named parseYAML has been added to parse a YAML string into a map of strings.

  • Error messages for parsing CEL expressions have been improved to make them more granular while evaluating expressions and when parsing the hook body for creating the evaluation environment.

  • Support is now available for marshaling boolean values and maps if they are used as the values of expressions in a CEL overlay mechanism.

  • The following fields have been added to the EventListener object:

    • The replicas field enables the event listener to run more than one pod by specifying the number of replicas in the YAML file.

    • The NodeSelector field enables the EventListener object to schedule the event listener pod to a specific node.

  • Webhook interceptors can now parse the EventListener-Request-URL header to extract parameters from the original request URL being handled by the event listener.

  • Annotations from the event listener can now be propagated to the deployment, services, and other pods. Note that custom annotations on services or deployment are overwritten, and hence, must be added to the event listener annotations so that they are propagated.

  • Proper validation for replicas in the EventListener specification is now available for cases when a user specifies the spec.replicas values as negative or zero.

  • You can now specify the TriggerCRD object inside the EventListener spec as a reference using the TriggerRef field to create the TriggerCRD object separately and then bind it inside the EventListener spec.

  • Validation and defaults for the TriggerCRD object are now available.

Deprecated features

  • $(params) parameters are now removed from the triggertemplate resource and replaced by $(tt.params) to avoid confusion between the resourcetemplate and triggertemplate resource parameters.

  • The ServiceAccount reference of the optional EventListenerTrigger-based authentication level has changed from an object reference to a ServiceAccountName string. This ensures that the ServiceAccount reference is in the same namespace as the EventListenerTrigger object.

  • The Conditions custom resource definition (CRD) is now deprecated; use the WhenExpressions CRD instead.

  • The PipelineRun.Spec.ServiceAccountNames object is being deprecated and replaced by the PipelineRun.Spec.TaskRunSpec[].ServiceAccountName object.

Known issues

  • This release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines adds support for a disconnected installation. However, some images used by the cluster tasks must be mirrored for them to work in disconnected clusters.

  • Pipelines in the openshift namespace are not deleted after you uninstall the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. Use the oc delete pipelines -n openshift --all command to delete the pipelines.

  • Uninstalling the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator does not remove the event listeners.

    As a workaround, to remove the EventListener and Pod CRDs:

    1. Edit the EventListener object with the foregroundDeletion finalizers:

      $ oc patch el/<eventlistener_name> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":["foregroundDeletion"]}}' --type=merge

      For example:

      $ oc patch el/github-listener-interceptor -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":["foregroundDeletion"]}}' --type=merge
    2. Delete the EventListener CRD:

      $ oc patch crd/eventlisteners.triggers.tekton.dev -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":[]}}' --type=merge
  • When you run a multi-arch container image task without command specification on an IBM Power Systems (ppc64le) or IBM Z (s390x) cluster, the TaskRun resource fails with the following error:

    Error executing command: fork/exec /bin/bash: exec format error

    As a workaround, use an architecture specific container image or specify the sha256 digest to point to the correct architecture. To get the sha256 digest enter:

    $ skopeo inspect --raw <image_name>| jq '.manifests[] | select(.platform.architecture == "<architecture>") | .digest'

Fixed issues

  • A simple syntax validation to check the CEL filter, overlays in the Webhook validator, and the expressions in the interceptor has now been added.

  • Triggers no longer overwrite annotations set on the underlying deployment and service objects.

  • Previously, an event listener would stop accepting events. This fix adds an idle timeout of 120 seconds for the EventListener sink to resolve this issue.

  • Previously, canceling a pipeline run with a Failed(Canceled) state gave a success message. This has been fixed to display an error instead.

  • The tkn eventlistener list command now provides the status of the listed event listeners, thus enabling you to easily identify the available ones.

  • Consistent error messages are now displayed for the triggers list and triggers describe commands when triggers are not installed or when a resource cannot be found.

  • Previously, a large number of idle connections would build up during cloud event delivery. The DisableKeepAlives: true parameter was added to the cloudeventclient config to fix this issue. Thus, a new connection is set up for every cloud event.

  • Previously, the creds-init code would write empty files to the disk even if credentials of a given type were not provided. This fix modifies the creds-init code to write files for only those credentials that have actually been mounted from correctly annotated secrets.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview 1.1

New features

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview (TP) 1.1 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.5. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines TP 1.1 is updated to support:

  • Tekton Pipelines 0.14.3

  • Tekton tkn CLI 0.11.0

  • Tekton Triggers 0.6.1

  • cluster tasks based on Tekton Catalog 0.14

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.1.

Pipelines

  • Workspaces can now be used instead of pipeline resources. It is recommended that you use workspaces in OpenShift Pipelines, as pipeline resources are difficult to debug, limited in scope, and make tasks less reusable. For more details on workspaces, see the Understanding OpenShift Pipelines section.

  • Workspace support for volume claim templates has been added:

    • The volume claim template for a pipeline run and task run can now be added as a volume source for workspaces. The tekton-controller then creates a persistent volume claim (PVC) using the template that is seen as a PVC for all task runs in the pipeline. Thus you do not need to define the PVC configuration every time it binds a workspace that spans multiple tasks.

    • Support to find the name of the PVC when a volume claim template is used as a volume source is now available using variable substitution.

  • Support for improving audits:

    • The PipelineRun.Status field now contains the status of every task run in the pipeline and the pipeline specification used to instantiate a pipeline run to monitor the progress of the pipeline run.

    • Pipeline results have been added to the pipeline specification and PipelineRun status.

    • The TaskRun.Status field now contains the exact task specification used to instantiate the TaskRun resource.

  • Support to apply the default parameter to conditions.

  • A task run created by referencing a cluster task now adds the tekton.dev/clusterTask label instead of the tekton.dev/task label.

  • The kube config writer now adds the ClientKeyData and the ClientCertificateData configurations in the resource structure to enable replacement of the pipeline resource type cluster with the kubeconfig-creator task.

  • The names of the feature-flags and the config-defaults config maps are now customizable.

  • Support for the host network in the pod template used by the task run is now available.

  • An Affinity Assistant is now available to support node affinity in task runs that share workspace volume. By default, this is disabled on OpenShift Pipelines.

  • The pod template has been updated to specify imagePullSecrets to identify secrets that the container runtime should use to authorize container image pulls when starting a pod.

  • Support for emitting warning events from the task run controller if the controller fails to update the task run.

  • Standard or recommended k8s labels have been added to all resources to identify resources belonging to an application or component.

  • The Entrypoint process is now notified for signals and these signals are then propagated using a dedicated PID Group of the Entrypoint process.

  • The pod template can now be set on a task level at runtime using task run specs.

  • Support for emitting Kubernetes events:

    • The controller now emits events for additional task run lifecycle events - taskrun started and taskrun running.

    • The pipeline run controller now emits an event every time a pipeline starts.

  • In addition to the default Kubernetes events, support for cloud events for task runs is now available. The controller can be configured to send any task run events, such as create, started, and failed, as cloud events.

  • Support for using the $context.<task|taskRun|pipeline|pipelineRun>.name variable to reference the appropriate name when in pipeline runs and task runs.

  • Validation for pipeline run parameters is now available to ensure that all the parameters required by the pipeline are provided by the pipeline run. This also allows pipeline runs to provide extra parameters in addition to the required parameters.

  • You can now specify tasks within a pipeline that will always execute before the pipeline exits, either after finishing all tasks successfully or after a task in the pipeline failed, using the finally field in the pipeline YAML file.

  • The git-clone cluster task is now available.

Pipelines CLI

  • Support for embedded trigger binding is now available to the tkn evenlistener describe command.

  • Support to recommend subcommands and make suggestions if an incorrect subcommand is used.

  • The tkn task describe command now auto selects the task if only one task is present in the pipeline.

  • You can now start a task using default parameter values by specifying the --use-param-defaults flag in the tkn task start command.

  • You can now specify a volume claim template for pipeline runs or task runs using the --workspace option with the tkn pipeline start or tkn task start commands.

  • The tkn pipelinerun logs command now displays logs for the final tasks listed in the finally section.

  • Interactive mode support has now been provided to the tkn task start command and the describe subcommand for the following tkn resources: pipeline, pipelinerun, task, taskrun, clustertask, and pipelineresource.

  • The tkn version command now displays the version of the triggers installed in the cluster.

  • The tkn pipeline describe command now displays parameter values and timeouts specified for tasks used in the pipeline.

  • Support added for the --last option for the tkn pipelinerun describe and the tkn taskrun describe commands to describe the most recent pipeline run or task run, respectively.

  • The tkn pipeline describe command now displays the conditions applicable to the tasks in the pipeline.

  • You can now use the --no-headers and --all-namespaces flags with the tkn resource list command.

Triggers

  • The following Common Expression Language (CEL) functions are now available:

    • parseURL to parse and extract portions of a URL

    • parseJSON to parse JSON value types embedded in a string in the payload field of the deployment webhook

  • A new interceptor for webhooks from Bitbucket has been added.

  • Event listeners now display the Address URL and the Available status as additional fields when listed with the kubectl get command.

  • trigger template params now use the $(tt.params.<paramName>) syntax instead of $(params.<paramName>) to reduce the confusion between trigger template and resource templates params.

  • You can now add tolerations in the EventListener CRD to ensure that event listeners are deployed with the same configuration even if all nodes are tainted due to security or management issues.

  • You can now add a Readiness Probe for event listener Deployment at URL/live.

  • Support for embedding TriggerBinding specifications in event listener triggers is now added.

  • Trigger resources are now annotated with the recommended app.kubernetes.io labels.

Deprecated features

The following items are deprecated in this release:

  • The --namespace or -n flags for all cluster-wide commands, including the clustertask and clustertriggerbinding commands, are deprecated. It will be removed in a future release.

  • The name field in triggers.bindings within an event listener has been deprecated in favor of the ref field and will be removed in a future release.

  • Variable interpolation in trigger templates using $(params) has been deprecated in favor of using $(tt.params) to reduce confusion with the pipeline variable interpolation syntax. The $(params.<paramName>) syntax will be removed in a future release.

  • The tekton.dev/task label is deprecated on cluster tasks.

  • The TaskRun.Status.ResourceResults.ResourceRef field is deprecated and will be removed.

  • The tkn pipeline create, tkn task create, and tkn resource create -f subcommands have been removed.

  • Namespace validation has been removed from tkn commands.

  • The default timeout of 1h and the -t flag for the tkn ct start command have been removed.

  • The s2i cluster task has been deprecated.

Known issues

  • Conditions do not support workspaces.

  • The --workspace option and the interactive mode is not supported for the tkn clustertask start command.

  • Support of backward compatibility for $(params.<paramName>) syntax forces you to use trigger templates with pipeline specific params as the trigger s webhook is unable to differentiate trigger params from pipelines params.

  • Pipeline metrics report incorrect values when you run a promQL query for tekton_taskrun_count and tekton_taskrun_duration_seconds_count.

  • pipeline runs and task runs continue to be in the Running and Running(Pending) states respectively even when a non existing PVC name is given to a workspace.

Fixed issues

  • Previously, the tkn task delete <name> --trs command would delete both the task and cluster task if the name of the task and cluster task were the same. With this fix, the command deletes only the task runs that are created by the task <name>.

  • Previously the tkn pr delete -p <name> --keep 2 command would disregard the -p flag when used with the --keep flag and would delete all the pipeline runs except the latest two. With this fix, the command deletes only the pipeline runs that are created by the pipeline <name>, except for the latest two.

  • The tkn triggertemplate describe output now displays resource templates in a table format instead of YAML format.

  • Previously the buildah cluster task failed when a new user was added to a container. With this fix, the issue has been resolved.

Release notes for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview 1.0

New features

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Technology Preview (TP) 1.0 is now available on OpenShift Container Platform 4.4. Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines TP 1.0 is updated to support:

  • Tekton Pipelines 0.11.3

  • Tekton tkn CLI 0.9.0

  • Tekton Triggers 0.4.0

  • cluster tasks based on Tekton Catalog 0.11

In addition to the fixes and stability improvements, the following sections highlight what is new in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.0.

Pipelines

  • Support for v1beta1 API Version.

  • Support for an improved limit range. Previously, limit range was specified exclusively for the task run and the pipeline run. Now there is no need to explicitly specify the limit range. The minimum limit range across the namespace is used.

  • Support for sharing data between tasks using task results and task params.

  • Pipelines can now be configured to not overwrite the HOME environment variable and the working directory of steps.

  • Similar to task steps, sidecars now support script mode.

  • You can now specify a different scheduler name in task run podTemplate resource.

  • Support for variable substitution using Star Array Notation.

  • Tekton controller can now be configured to monitor an individual namespace.

  • A new description field is now added to the specification of pipelines, tasks, cluster tasks, resources, and conditions.

  • Addition of proxy parameters to Git pipeline resources.

Pipelines CLI

  • The describe subcommand is now added for the following tkn resources: EventListener, Condition, TriggerTemplate, ClusterTask, and TriggerSBinding.

  • Support added for v1beta1 to the following resources along with backward compatibility for v1alpha1: ClusterTask, Task, Pipeline, PipelineRun, and TaskRun.

  • The following commands can now list output from all namespaces using the --all-namespaces flag option: tkn task list, tkn pipeline list, tkn taskrun list, tkn pipelinerun list

    The output of these commands is also enhanced to display information without headers using the --no-headers flag option.

  • You can now start a pipeline using default parameter values by specifying --use-param-defaults flag in the tkn pipelines start command.

  • Support for workspace is now added to tkn pipeline start and tkn task start commands.

  • A new clustertriggerbinding command is now added with the following subcommands: describe, delete, and list.

  • You can now directly start a pipeline run using a local or remote yaml file.

  • The describe subcommand now displays an enhanced and detailed output. With the addition of new fields, such as description, timeout, param description, and sidecar status, the command output now provides more detailed information about a specific tkn resource.

  • The tkn task log command now displays logs directly if only one task is present in the namespace.

Triggers

  • Triggers can now create both v1alpha1 and v1beta1 pipeline resources.

  • Support for new Common Expression Language (CEL) interceptor function - compareSecret. This function securely compares strings to secrets in CEL expressions.

  • Support for authentication and authorization at the event listener trigger level.

Deprecated features

The following items are deprecated in this release:

  • The environment variable $HOME, and variable workingDir in the Steps specification are deprecated and might be changed in a future release. Currently in a Step container, the HOME and workingDir variables are overwritten to /tekton/home and /workspace variables, respectively.

    In a later release, these two fields will not be modified, and will be set to values defined in the container image and the Task YAML. For this release, use the disable-home-env-overwrite and disable-working-directory-overwrite flags to disable overwriting of the HOME and workingDir variables.

  • The following commands are deprecated and might be removed in the future release: tkn pipeline create, tkn task create.

  • The -f flag with the tkn resource create command is now deprecated. It might be removed in the future release.

  • The -t flag and the --timeout flag (with seconds format) for the tkn clustertask create command are now deprecated. Only duration timeout format is now supported, for example 1h30s. These deprecated flags might be removed in the future release.

Known issues

  • If you are upgrading from an older version of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, you must delete your existing deployments before upgrading to Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines version 1.0. To delete an existing deployment, you must first delete Custom Resources and then uninstall the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. For more details, see the uninstalling Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines section.

  • Submitting the same v1alpha1 tasks more than once results in an error. Use the oc replace command instead of oc apply when re-submitting a v1alpha1 task.

  • The buildah cluster task does not work when a new user is added to a container.

    When the Operator is installed, the --storage-driver flag for the buildah cluster task is not specified, therefore the flag is set to its default value. In some cases, this causes the storage driver to be set incorrectly. When a new user is added, the incorrect storage-driver results in the failure of the buildah cluster task with the following error:

    useradd: /etc/passwd.8: lock file already used
    useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.

    As a workaround, manually set the --storage-driver flag value to overlay in the buildah-task.yaml file:

    1. Login to your cluster as a cluster-admin:

      $ oc login -u <login> -p <password> https://openshift.example.com:6443
    2. Use the oc edit command to edit buildah cluster task:

      $ oc edit clustertask buildah

      The current version of the buildah clustertask YAML file opens in the editor set by your EDITOR environment variable.

    3. Under the Steps field, locate the following command field:

       command: ['buildah', 'bud', '--format=$(params.FORMAT)', '--tls-verify=$(params.TLSVERIFY)', '--layers', '-f', '$(params.DOCKERFILE)', '-t', '$(resources.outputs.image.url)', '$(params.CONTEXT)']
    4. Replace the command field with the following:

       command: ['buildah', '--storage-driver=overlay', 'bud', '--format=$(params.FORMAT)', '--tls-verify=$(params.TLSVERIFY)', '--no-cache', '-f', '$(params.DOCKERFILE)', '-t', '$(params.IMAGE)', '$(params.CONTEXT)']
    5. Save the file and exit.

    Alternatively, you can also modify the buildah cluster task YAML file directly on the web console by navigating to PipelinesCluster Tasksbuildah. Select Edit Cluster Task from the Actions menu and replace the command field as shown in the previous procedure.

Fixed issues

  • Previously, the DeploymentConfig task triggered a new deployment build even when an image build was already in progress. This caused the deployment of the pipeline to fail. With this fix, the deploy task command is now replaced with the oc rollout status command which waits for the in-progress deployment to finish.

  • Support for APP_NAME parameter is now added in pipeline templates.

  • Previously, the pipeline template for Java S2I failed to look up the image in the registry. With this fix, the image is looked up using the existing image pipeline resources instead of the user provided IMAGE_NAME parameter.

  • All the OpenShift Pipelines images are now based on the Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI).

  • Previously, when the pipeline was installed in a namespace other than tekton-pipelines, the tkn version command displayed the pipeline version as unknown. With this fix, the tkn version command now displays the correct pipeline version in any namespace.

  • The -c flag is no longer supported for the tkn version command.

  • Non-admin users can now list the cluster trigger bindings.

  • The event listener CompareSecret function is now fixed for the CEL Interceptor.

  • The list, describe, and start subcommands for tasks and cluster tasks now correctly display the output in case a task and cluster task have the same name.

  • Previously, the OpenShift Pipelines Operator modified the privileged security context constraints (SCCs), which caused an error during cluster upgrade. This error is now fixed.

  • In the tekton-pipelines namespace, the timeouts of all task runs and pipeline runs are now set to the value of default-timeout-minutes field using the config map.

  • Previously, the pipelines section in the web console was not displayed for non-admin users. This issue is now resolved.