Tekton Pipelines for Kubernetes-Native Continuous Delivery

"Tekton Pipelines for Kubernetes-Native Continuous Delivery" In "Tekton Pipelines for Kubernetes-Native Continuous Delivery," readers are guided through the entire landscape of modern CI/CD practices explicitly reimagined for Kubernetes environments. The book begins by exploring the evolution of continuous integration and delivery, placing Tekton in context among foundational and contemporary cloud native tools. With clear explanations of Tekton's architecture, core concepts, and ecosystem placement, it establishes a solid baseline for both practitioners migrating from legacy systems and those starting their cloud-native journey. Readers will learn how to deploy, configure, and manage Tekton Pipelines, with emphasis on Kubernetes-native patterns, Custom Resource Definitions, and best-in-class security considerations. Moving beyond fundamentals, the book delves deeply into advanced pipeline and task design, presenting practical patterns for orchestrating complex workflows, ensuring artifact consistency, and fostering reusability through modularity and open community catalogs. Real-world solutions are provided for scaling executions, optimizing performance, implementing dynamic and resilient pipelines, and integrating with cloud services such as Google Cloud Build and AWS. Careful attention is given to event-driven delivery with Tekton Triggers, parameterization, payload transformation, and robust SCM integrations-empowering teams to build automated yet secure, auditable, and policy-compliant CI/CD systems. Operational excellence and extensibility are woven throughout, with chapters dedicated to security, compliance, multi-tenancy, observability, and cost optimization. The work features in-depth, enterprise-focused case studies that illuminate both the promise and challenges of adopting Kubernetes-native CD at scale, including progressive delivery, zero-trust pipelines, disaster recovery, and best practices for contributing to and extending the Tekton ecosystem. For DevOps engineers, architects, and technical leads seeking to drive innovation and reliability in software delivery, this book is an indispensable, authoritative guide to Tekton Pipelines in modern Kubernetes environments.