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Cluster Task#

Overview#

The create-environment Tekton cluster task is used to create the Environment CR. The Environment CR will be used to deploy the application to its testing environment within your cluster. The use case of this cluster task is to automate the creation and updating of the Environment CR, whenever the application's image is created on PR create or update events. Note that Tronador, and by extension the Environment CR, are independent of Tekton. Any CI engine can be used instead for this purpose, and this Tekton cluster task is just an example of it.

Requirements#

The create-environment cluster task requires the following:

  • A workspace named output
  • a configMap within your cluster named environment-template with the following data:
data:
  environmentTemplate.yml: |
    apiVersion: tronador.stakater.com/v1alpha2
    kind: Environment
    metadata:
      name: $ENVIRONMENT_NAME
    spec:
      namespaceLabels:
    ${NAMESPACE_LABELS}
      application:
        gitRepository:
          gitImplementation: go-git
          interval: 1m0s
          ref:
            branch: ${GIT_BRANCH}
          timeout: 20s
          url: ${GIT_URL}
        release:
          chart:
            spec:
              chart: ${CHART_PATH}
              reconcileStrategy: ChartVersion
              sourceRef:
                kind: GitRepository
                name: dte-${GIT_BRANCH}
              version: '*'
          interval: 1m0s
          releaseName: ${GIT_BRANCH}
          valuesFrom:
    ${VALUES_FROM}
          values:
    ${VALUES_OVERRIDE}

Parameters#

The input parameters to the cluster task will be:

  • pathToTronadorFile: The path to the .tronador.yaml config file within the repo. Default value is the root your repo, ".tronador.yaml"
  • repoName: Name of the repository
  • prNumber: Pull request number
  • gitUrl: URL to the remote git repository
  • gitBranch: Branch to clone via Helm release
  • imageTag: Tag of the image to create
  • imageRepo: Repository where the image is located

These parameters can be gotten from the GitHub webhook that triggers the Tekton pipeline, and will be passed here. imageTag and imageRepo are gotten from the task that creates and pushes your images to your image registry.

Outputs#

The only output of this task is an Environment CR, generated from both these values and the Tronador config file, and placed inside $(workspaces.output.path)/environment/environment.yaml