The document discusses Cloud Native CI/CD and the Tekton project. It begins with an overview of cloud native concepts like containers, Kubernetes, and microservices. It then defines characteristics of cloud native CI/CD like being serverless, using open standards, reusable components, and config as code. The document introduces Tekton as a cloud native CI/CD building block on Kubernetes that uses custom resources for tasks, pipelines, triggers and more. It highlights a demo of Tekton before concluding with the project's roadmap and how to get involved.

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Shifting Left With
Cloud Native CI/CD
QCon San Francisco 2019

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Christie Wilson
Lead Engineer @ Google
Tekton Co-Creator
MY CAT
ME

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Make Mistakes!

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Rockstars
Heroes
Ninjas
...
Janitors

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Can’t have success without failure

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Cloud Native CI/CD
can make failure
easier and cheaper

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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What is Cloud Native?

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What is Cloud Native?
}Microservices in containers Images / Containers
Dynamically orchestrated
Optimized resource utilization } Kubernetes

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wut?

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Images/Containers
● A binary and all of its dependencies
● Containers share an OS
● Run as resource isolated processes
Non-cloud native equivalent:

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Kubernetes
● Platform for managing containers
● Abstracts away the underlying hardware
○ Computing
○ Networking
○ Storage
Non-cloud native equivalent:
● People + wikis
● Build your own!
● Machine under your desk

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A Few Kubernetes Concepts

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Pod + Node
● Node = machine you run stuff on
○ Could be a physical machine or VM
● Pod = 1 or more containers
○ Run on the same pod
Non-cloud native equivalent:
● Node -> Host machine
● Pod -> Bunch of stuff you run together
○ e.g. My python process + supervisord + some proxy service

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Yet
Another
Markup
Language

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Moar complicated

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2008 complexity

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Cloud Native complexity

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Cloud Native
complexity
● Start with a webserver
● End up with Kubernetes + Istio
+ Knative + Helm + Spinnaker*
There is a lot to grok here and it’s
constantly changing!
* Istio: Stuff for services to talk to each other
Helm: Kubernetes package manager
Knative: Serverless platform on Kubernetes
Spinnaker: Control plane for deployment

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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What is CI/CD?

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What is CI?
Literally integrating code together
continually
Continuous Integration

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Software
Supply Chain
● How does my code get from
source to running in prod?
● What pieces are involved?
● CI/CD = build, test + deploy

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Cloud Native
CI/CD
The Definitive* Definition
* aka defined by me
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Reusable components
4. Infrastructure agnostic
5. Config as code

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Cloud Native CI/CD
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Reusable components
4. Infrastructure agnostic
5. Config as code

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Serverless
CI/CD
● Scaling up and down resources
as needed
● You specify what you want to
run, freed of the much of
responsibility to manage the
underlying resources

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Serverless
CI/CD
● Don’t need to waste resources
● No need for monolithic
execution

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Cloud Native CI/CD
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Reusable components
4. Infrastructure agnostic
5. Config as code

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Specs &
Standards
Doesn’t have to be perfect, just
good enough & widely used
● Part of what makes k8s so cool
is that it’s a spec we can all
agree on

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Specs &
Standards
Infinite extensibility!
● Any k8s resource can be
manipulated (e.g. with
controllers, admission
webhooks)
● Anything built on k8s can be
manipulated with k8s tools

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Cloud Native CI/CD
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Reusable components
4. Infrastructure agnostic
5. Config as code

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Reusable
components
Do we need another Slack
notification plugin?
● Write it once, use it again and
and again
● Kubernetes is itself a building
block, that enables the creation
of more building blocks

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Cloud Native CI/CD
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Reusable components
4. Infrastructure agnostic
5. Config as code

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Use your own
infra
Infrastructure agnostic
● A kubernetes pod is a
kubernetes pod
● If you can deploy to prod kube,
it should be possible to deploy
to your kube
● Use the same config!

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Use your own
infra
Shift left
● The sooner you fail the better!
● Perform testing earlier in your
lifecycle
● Why not do it before the code
is pushed!

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Use your own
infra
Parity
● Make the complexity of
kubernetes worth it!
● Pre-kube, it was nearly
impossible for me to setup a
production like environment on
my own machine

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Cloud Native CI/CD
1. Serverless
2. Specs and standards
3. Infrastructure agnostic
4. Reusable components
5. Config as code

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Config as Code
Even the YAML

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Learning &
Debugging
Fail easily!
● As our systems get more
complicated, we need to be
able to learn faster
● We need to be able to look at
what the system are doing

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Debugging = Learning

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The faster you can learn,
the faster you can deliver value

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How do we
debug?
● By poking and prodding the
thing
● Looking at what it’s doing
● Changing it, seeing what
happens

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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Shifting Left

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Software development

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Cost of defects

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Shift Left
Fail earlier!
There WILL be defects
● Test earlier!
● Catch failures earlier!

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Shift Left

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Shifting Left with Cloud Native

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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Tekton is Cloud
Native CI/CD
Tekton is a Cloud Native
CI/CD building block!

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The CDF

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Contributors from:
● Google
● CloudBees
● Red Hat
● IBM
● Salesforce
● Puppet
● … and more!
New contributor friendly!

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Porcelain vs
Plumbing
Toilet vs. Plumbing Underneath

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Who is Tekton for?
Developers
building CI/CD
systems
End users that
want DIY
All users that
want a catalog of
reusable CI/CD
Now! Now! Watch this Space

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CRDs
● Extending kubernetes
with custom types
● Controllers act on
Resources
● = CI/CD platform on
Kubernetes
Custom Resource Definitions

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● Is actually a container spec (k8s type)
● Container image +
○ Environment variables
○ Arguments
○ Volumes
○ etc.
Steps

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● New CRD
● Sequence of steps
● Run in sequential order
● Run on the same k8s node
Task CRD

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● Express Tasks order
○ Sequentially
○ Concurrently
○ (Graph)
● Execute Tasks on different nodes
● Link inputs and outputs
Pipeline CRD

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Runtime CRDs
● Instances of Pipeline/Task:
○ PipelineRun
○ TaskRun
● PipelineResource
○ Runtime info like image registry, git repo, etc.

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Tekton Pipeline CRDs

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PipelineResources + Software Supply Chain
● Typed artifacts moving through your supply chain
PipelineResources

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But I want to make PipelineRun
whenever I open a Pull Request?

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Tekton Triggers CRDs

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Cloud Native CI/CD Tekton
Serverless Serverless execution
Specs and standards Tekton API
Infrastructure agnostic Containers are the building
block
Reusable components
+
Config as Code
Tasks, Pipelines,
PipelineResources,
TriggerTemplates,
TriggerBindings,
EventListeners

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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Tekton Demo
CI/CD config living alongside
the code
Ran it on my cluster!
Used kubernetes tools
Reproducible
Serverless execution

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Agenda
● What is Cloud Native?
● What is Cloud Native CI/CD?
● What is shifting left?
● What is Tekton?
● Demo!
● What’s next for Tekton?

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Tekton: Roadmap
2019 Q3
● Tekton Triggers 0.1
2020 Q1
● Tekton Pipelines Beta
2020 +
● Catalog!
● Manual approvals, notifications,
other cool advanced CI/CD stuff

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Join in!
● tekton.dev
● github.com/tektoncd/pipeline
● github.com/tektoncd/community
● CDF Summit at Kubecon NA (Nov 18)
○ cds2019.sched.com
○ events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudn
ativecon-north-america-2019/co-located-events/
● @tektoncd on Twitter!

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Software we think we
should be making
Software we actually make
Nailed it!
Thanks!

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Sources
● Richard Montañez, inventor of flaming hot cheetos:
www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/a-janitor-invented-flamin-hot-cheetos-and-became
-a-pepsico-exec.html
● What is serverless: martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
● Building a Debugging Mindset:
www.slideshare.net/InfoQ/building-a-debugging-mindset
● Learning is the most important skill:
twitter.com/ASpittel/status/1101165138361479169
● Tekton: github.com/tektoncd/pipeline

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