Pipeline Resources Redesign

What is this thing?

This is a tracking issue / epic for all of the ongoing pipeline resources investigation, design and proof-of-concept work.

Existing Design Work and Feature Requests

• Volumes, Tasks and PipelineResources overlap
• Resources, PVCs and Chaining
• PipelineResource Extensibility
• Tekton Creates PVCs Unnecessarily, which can be slow
• Pipeline Resource Immutability
• Dynamic Output Resources
• Strong Typing for Pipeline Resources
• Optional Pipeline Resources
• Abstract Task and Nested Tasks
• Add Hooks into Pipeline Lifecycle
• Allow for TaskReference Interpolation within Pipeline

Existing PipelineResource Problems

• Implicit Git & Image Authentication
• Create git output that updates git
• .ssh configs etc are not available when running manual git commands in other steps

Design Docs Without A Home Anywhere Else

• Pipeline Resources 2 Uber Design Doc