tekton-caches

This is a tool to cache resources like go cache/maven or others on TektonCD pipelines.

This tool supports uploading the cache to an OCI registry and plans to support S3, GCS and other storage backends.

It uses the new StepActions feature of TektonCD Pipelines but can be as well used without it.

See the StepActions in the tekton/ directory.

Example

This is an example of a build pipeline for a go application caching and reusing the go cache. If the go.mod and go.sum are changed the cache is invalidated and rebuilt.

Pre-requisites

• You need a recent TektonCD pipelines installed with the StepActions feature-flags enabled.

kubectl patch configmap -n tekton-pipelines --type merge -p '{"data":{"enable-step-actions": "true"}}' feature-flags

• A registry to push the images to. Example: docker.io/loginname. Make sure you have setup tekton to be able to push/fetch from that registry, see the TektonCD pipelines documentation

Usage

Create the go pipeline example from the examples directory:

kubectl create -f pipeline-go.yaml

Start it with the tkn cli (change the value as needed):

tkn pipeline start pipeline-go --param repo_url=https://github.com/vdemeester/go-helloworld-app --param revision=main --param registry=docker.io/username -w name=source,emptyDir= --use-param-defaults

or with a PipelineRun yaml object:

kind: PipelineRun
metadata:
  name: build-go-application-with-caching-run
spec:
  pipelineRef:
    name: pipeline-go
  params:
    - name: repo_url
      value: https://github.com/vdemeester/go-helloworld-app
    - name: revision
      value: main
    - name: registry
      value: docker.io/username
  workspaces:
    - name: source
      emptyDir: {}

• you can as well redefine the buildCommand which by default do a go build -v ./ with the buildCommand parameter, for example if you want instead to run the tests on a repo with caching:

tkn pipeline start pipeline-go --param repo_url=https://github.com/chmouel/gosmee \ 
  --param revision=main --param registry=docker.io/username \
  --param=buildCommand="make test" -w name=source,emptyDir= --use-param-defaults --showlog

• You can as well force the upload of the cache with param force-cache-upload=true (default: false)
• You can provide your own image with the param image (default to the latest docker.io golang image)
• You can provide your own patterns for the hash to computer with the cachePatterns array parameter (default to go.mod,go.sum)

License

Apache License 2.0