🎉 Debugging taskRuns and Merging podTemplates with default 🎉

-Docs @ v0.26.0
-Examples @ v0.26.0

Installation one-liner

kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/pipeline/previous/v0.26.0/release.yaml

Upgrade Notices

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Features

• ✨ Merge *Run's PodTemplate with Default 🧙 (#4057)

TaskRun and PipelineRun's PodTemplate are now merge with the default PodTemplate. This means any field that is not specified in a TaskRun or PipelineRun's PodTemplate will come from the configured default PodTemplate (if defined).

• ✨ Add debug with breakpoint onFailure to TaskRun Spec (#3857)

  • Add -breakpoint_on_failure to entrypointer which disables exit of container upon failure
  • Add debug helper scripts to /tekton/debug/scripts
  • Add /tekton/debug/info/ mount which is used by helper scripts to understand which step they are running in where denotes the step number. First step = 0, Second step = 1 and so on.

Deprecation Notices

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Backwards incompatible changes

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Fixes

• 🐛 Set HOME=/tekton/home for GCS PipelineResources (#4081)

Fixed bug where GCS PipelineResource failed to upload unless HOME="/tekton/home" was explicitly set in task's pod template.

• 🐛 Fix the cp command in the release publish task (#4051)

Misc

• 🔨 Set fake AWS credentials on controller to workaround aws-sdk bug (#4073)

Work around a bug in the AWS go SDK that causes extremely long delays in task startup times.

• 🔨 Update knative/pkg to v0.23 and k8s.io to v0.20.7 (#4044)

Bump k8s.io and knative dependencies to v0.20.7 and v0.23.0 respectively, taking latest fixes and features in.

• 🔨 cleaning up task results constant (#4070)

• 🔨 Replace tmpfile with scriptfile in script init container (#4041)

Docs

• 📖 Updates to pipeline tutorial to handle skaffold Dockerfile and keep the yq syntax working (#4058)

  1. Updated kaniko executor image to latest
  2. Added --build-arg=BASE=alpine:3 to have kaniko correctly handle the skaffold leeroy-web Dockerfile (had the issue described in GoogleContainerTools/kaniko#1271 before)
  3. Changed mikefarah/yq image to 3.4.1 (the latest working with the provided command) in deploy-using-kubectl task to get this working (ver. 4 changed the syntax completely: https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/upgrading-from-v3, so the command gave a syntax error)

• 📖 Add v0.25.0 to the README (#4043)

• 📖 Update comment on RunControllerName const (#4065)

• 📖 Adjust weight in hermetic.md (#4056)

• 📖 Fix broken link (#4054)

• 📖 docs: update metrics name (#3945)

Thanks

Thanks to these contributors who contributed to v0.26.0!

• ❤️ @afrittoli
• ❤️ @eliasnorrby
• ❤️ @ggalloro
• ❤️ @jerop
• ❤️ @pritidesai
• ❤️ @pugangxa
• ❤️ @sbwsg
• ❤️ @vdemeester
• ❤️ @waveywaves
• ❤️ @zhouhaibing089

Extra shout-out for awesome release notes:

• 😍 @ggalloro
• 😍 @jerop
• 😍 @sbwsg
• 😍 @vdemeester
• 😍 @waveywaves