Developer docs

This document is aimed at helping maintainers/developers of project understand the complexity.

We also recommend checking out the Teknical Tekton channel for training and tutorials on Tekton!

Contents

• Developing on Tekton:
  • Local Setup: Getting your local environment set up to develop on Tekton.
  • Testing:
    • Overview: Running Tekton tests.
    • Best Practices: Guidelines for writing effective unit tests.
  • Tracing: Enabling Jaeger tracing
• How Tekton is run on Kubernetes:
  • Controller Logic: How Tekton extends Kubernetes using Knative.
  • TaskRun Logic: How TaskRuns are run in pods.
  • Resources Labeling: Labels applied to Tekton resources.
  • Multi-Tenant Support: Running Tekton in multi-tenant configurations.
  • Informer Cache Transform: Memory optimization that strips fields from cached objects.
• API Versioning: How Tekton supports multiple API versions and feature gates.
• How specific features are implemented:
  • Results
  • Affinity Assistant