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Tekton

Cloud-native CI/CD building blocks for Kubernetes

CI/CD & Build ★ 9.1k stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems. It provides pipelines, tasks, and triggers as Kubernetes custom resources for portable automation.

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Key features

  • Kubernetes-native pipelines
  • Reusable tasks and steps
  • Event-driven triggers
  • Cloud-portable

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
  • Mature project with 9.1k GitHub stars
  • Written in Go

Is Tekton secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Tekton's latest release (v1.17.0). OSV.dev lists 8 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-40161, published 2026-04-21 (176 days ago), fixed in 1.0.2, 1.3.4, 1.6.2, 1.9.3, 1.11.1

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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