octant-plugin

Tekton Octant Plugin

The Tekton Octant plugin provides a plugin to the Octant dashboard. The plugin displays additional useful information about Tekton custom resources on your Kubernetes cluster.

Using this Plugin

To add this plugin to Octant, clone this repository and run the following in the octant-plugin folder from this repository:

go build -o ~/.config/octant/plugins/tekton-plugin ./

The command above will add the binary for this plugin under ~/.config/octant/plugins/tekton-plugin.

If you are running Octant at the time that you add the plugin, you will need to restart Octant by stopping Octant and running octant from the command line.

After starting up Octant with the tekton-plugin, you will find information about Tekton resources on your cluster under the Custom Resources section of the dashboard.

Dashboard Visualization

Task

• Lists input resources and parameters, and output resources
• TODO: links to recent TaskRuns

TaskRun

• Links Pod status (with logs!), and Task definition
• Displays queued time and duration
• TODO: Graphviz visualization of status

Pipeline

• Lists input resources and parameters
• Links Task definition
• TODO: Graphviz of Pipeline configuration
• TODO: links to recent PipelineRuns

PipelineRun

• Links Pipeline definition
• Displays queued time and duration
• TODO: Graphviz visualization of status

Development and Testing

To make changes to the tekton-plugin, simply add your changes and run the following to compile and add the new binary to your Octant plugins folder:

go build -o ~/.config/octant/plugins/tekton-plugin ./

Then restart octant which will open a new browser tab, and you should be able to see and test your changes.

Uninstall

To remove the tekton-plugin from your Octant dashboard, you can run the following command to the delete the plugin binary:

rm ~/.config/octant/plugins/tekton-plugin