Tekton Reviews

Name: Tekton
Brand: Google
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

3.2 out of 5

3 reviews
66% willing to recommend

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Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. It lets you build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

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Tekton is the #3 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Tekton an average rating of 6.4 out of 10. Tekton is most commonly compared to GitLab: Tekton vs GitLab. Tekton is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 76% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Shams Ur Rehman

DevOps II Engineer at EMumba

Nov 7, 2023

Its user-friendly features include a clean and sleek dashboard. This dashboard provides detailed logs and stages of the pipeline, offering transparency into each step of the process. In case of any failures at a specific stage, the dashboard provides comprehensive information about the issue, enabling quick identification and resolution. Another valuable aspect is its lightweight nature. There's no need for additional deployments or reliance on external vendors for CI/CD, resulting in significant cost savings. Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively. Its capability to build entire applications within containers contributes to a seamless and efficient workflow. It stands out for its customizability and scalability, allowing users to undertake diverse tasks.

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AbbasiPoonawala

Architecture Manager at Alinma Bank

Jul 6, 2023

Tekton plays a primary role as an orchestrator. When we receive a webhook from any Git repository, such as Azure Git or GitLab, Tekton triggers the pipeline and performs tasks like code retrieval, running SonarQube or Fortify tasks, and creating and deploying images to multiple environments. So we can have multiple promoted environments, starting from dev to SIT, then to UAT, and finally to production. We follow a continuous flow branching approach, allowing us to promote changes from smaller environments to larger ones like dev to SIT, SIT to UAT, and UAT to production, which is our master branch. This helps us maintain a smooth workflow and ensures reliable deployment.

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reviewer2093664

Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Feb 10, 2023

Setting up Tekton initially was not a simple process. We did not choose to use Tekton, but rather it was selected due to its availability. IBM promotes Tekton and its integration with OpenShift, so when we set up OpenShift a year and a half ago, we also set up Tekton. We have already implemented GitLab Runner for multiple projects, replacing Tekton. GitLab Runner has been found to be advantageous for developers, due to its ease of use. As a result, we are now running two distinct pipelines for different projects, with the majority of developers preferring GitLab Runner over Tekton. I give the initial setup a five out of ten. The implementation of Tekton took some time due to operational challenges, rather than a lack of technical knowledge. These challenges included a lack of understanding of Tekton and the availability of the infrastructure personnel. The overall implementation took us around one month.

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Tekton market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Tekton in the Build Automation category stands at 11.5%, marking an increase of 23.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively."
"Tekton is an orchestrator. It provides seamless integration for our pipelines. It offers robust support for executing tasks within the pipeline, allowing us to set up and run pipelines quickly."
"Tekton is serverless and runs on OpenShift, and we leverage Tekton to take full advantage of the Kubernetes features such as running and scaling the solution in PaaS."

Room for Improvement

"It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."
"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production."
"Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers."