The Tekton Pipelines cli project provides a CLI for interacting with Tekton !

Download the latest binary executable for your operating system:

• Mac OS X

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/tkn_0.2.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.2.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin tkn

  You can also use @chmouel's unofficial brew tap for the time being.

  brew tap chmouel/tektoncd-cli
  brew install tektoncd-cli

• Linux AMD 64

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/tkn_0.2.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.2.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

• Linux ARM 64

  # Get the tar.xz
  curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.2.0/tkn_0.2.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
  # Extract tkn to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
  sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.2.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

If you have go installed, GO111MODULE="on" go get github.com/tektoncd/cli@v0.2.0 is all you need!

kubectl will find any binary named kubectl-* on your PATH and consider it as a plugin. After installing tkn, create a link as kubectl-tkn

$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/tkn /usr/local/bin/kubectl-tkn

kubectl will find any binary named kubectl-* on your PATH and consider it as a plugin

$ ./kubectl plugin list
/usr/local/bin/kubectl-tkn

The following commands help you understand and effectively use the Tekton CLI:

• tkn help: Displays a list of the commands with helpful information.
• tkn completion: Outputs a BASH completion script for tkn to allow command completion with Tab.
• tkn version: Outputs the cli version.
• tkn pipeline: Parent command of the Pipeline command group.
• tkn pipelinerun: Parent command of the Pipelinerun command group.
• tkn task: Parent command of the Task command group.
• tkn taskrun: Parent command of the Taskrun command group.

For every tkn command, you can use -h or --help flags to display specific help for that command.

We are so excited to have you!

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for an overview of our processes
• See DEVELOPMENT.md for how to get started
• Look at our good first issues and our help wanted issues