Tekton
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Tekton is CI/CD built as Kubernetes primitives. Every pipeline is a set of CRDs — Tasks, Pipelines, PipelineRuns. It's cloud-native CI/CD for the 'everything must be Kubernetes' crowd. If your company breathes Kubernetes, Tekton feels natural. If not, you'll wonder why everything is so YAML-heavy.
Real Talk
Tekton is a cloud-native, Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework that provides reusable building blocks (Tasks, Pipelines, Triggers) as Custom Resource Definitions. It's a CNCF project designed for standardized, portable CI/CD pipelines that run natively on any Kubernetes cluster.
When You'll Hear This
"Tekton pipelines run as Kubernetes pods — scaling is built in." / "We chose Tekton because we wanted CI/CD as Kubernetes-native as our workloads."
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