FR: Dynamic TriggerTemplate Resources

[wlynch]

Motivating Use Case

Be able to run/test Tekton Trigger configurations ephemerally without needing to apply it permanently to the cluster. e.g. how do I test a change to a Template/Pipeline config?

Proposed Solution

Add a new type that can be included in TriggerTemplates that will read configuration dynamically from a file.

This type should take a volume generating resource (such as GitResource or StorageResource) as an input.

Example

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerTemplate
metadata:
  name: pipeline-template
spec:
  resourcetemplates:
  - apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: PipelineResource
    metadata:
      name: git-repo
    spec:
      type: git
      params:
      - name: revision
        value: $(params.gitrevision)
      - name: url
        value: $(params.gitrepositoryurl)
  - apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1alpha1
    kind: DynamicResource
    metadata:
      name: dynamic-resource
    spec:
      path: '/path/to/my/config.yaml'
      inputs:
        resourceRef:
          name: git-repo

Where /path/to/my/config.yaml references a file containing other TriggerTemplate resources (example)

Open Questions

1. Will there be any issues in order when referencing a Resource from another Resource?
2. Name? DynamicResource? FileResource?

TODO

• Write full design
• Implement

[wlynch]

/assign wlynch

[vdemeester]

/kind feature

I am not sure why it should take a PipelineResource. What is the requirement for that ?
Also, related to tektoncd/pipeline#1369, we should make sense that we may (or user may) not use PipelineResource in some cases, and thus, we should make sure our design(s) work without it too 👼

[wlynch]

Here's a pass at a proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fTob_Y6qo61vl6UIhraV6tSRM9Vb-DrugCyihB6md_Q/edit#

@vdemeester Would particularly like your feedback here, since this has heavy overlap with your catalog URI proposal.

[vtereso]

This seems like it could be satisfied with a TaskRun that would kubectl create/kubectl apply a URI? The new PipelineResource design allows for arbitrary additions/injections so there might be overlap there too.

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