The build and deploy Tasks

The build Task

Let’s start with the build Task. This Task will take in inputs (like the Git repository URL) and build and publish an image. We’ve already created a file named task-build.yaml. First, we need to run the command mentioned in taskBuild.sh.

Note: Click the “Run” button under the widget shown below and enter the commands in the terminal.

To run all the commands written in a .sh file, just type ./file-name.sh in the terminal.

The Task definition, as mentioned in task-build.yaml, defines a Task with the name build. The Task takes multiple inputs (such as the Git repository URL) and outputs a container image. These inputs and outputs are referred to as resources in Tekton. The params field defines input parameters for the Task. For example, repo-URL represents the Git repository to clone. A Task can emit string results, defined in the results field, whose values can be viewed by users or passed to other Tasks in a pipeline. The published image is returned for the build Task we created.

The Task has the following two steps:

• The git-clone step uses the alpine/git image to ...