Tekton is a young Kubernetes-native platform for managing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It not only installs and runs on Kubernetes but also defines its CI/CD pipelines as Kubernetes custom resources. This means the pipelines can now be controlled by native Kubernetes clients (CLI or APIs) and can take advantage of underlying resource management features such as rollbacks. The pipeline declaration format is flexible and allows defining workflows with conditions, parallel execution paths and handling final tasks to clean up among other features. As a result, Tekton can support complex and hybrid deployment workflows with rollbacks, canary release and more. Tekton is open source and also offered as a managed service by GCP. Although the documentation has room for improvement and the community is growing, we've been using Tekton successfully for production workloads on AWS.
