What is OpenShift Pipelines?

Now that you already have a lab environment, let’s start our engines and drive through OpenShift Pipelines! As we mentioned previously, OpenShift Pipelines is Red Hat’s implementation of the Tekton open source project. Let’s learn what Tekton is and how it differs from other CI/CD pipeline tools on the market.

What is Tekton?

Tekton provides a framework for creating Kubernetes native CI/CD pipelines quickly and easily. It uses CRDs to extend the Kubernetes APIs functionalities and add some custom objects that are used to implement CI/CD pipelines. You can also integrate Tekton with industry-standard CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and any others to use the best technology for each case.

Tekton is a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, which is sponsored by huge companies such as AWS, Red Hat, Google, Netflix, and many others. This is usually a good indication that a project will have a long life and...