Install Tekton:

❯ kubectl apply --filename https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/pipeline/latest/release.yaml
❯ kubectl get pods --namespace tekton-pipelines

Install Tekton CLI:

❯ brew tap tektoncd/tools
❯ brew install tektoncd/tools/tektoncd-cli

Create simple a task in file task-hello-world.yml:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: hello
spec:
  steps:
    - name: hello
      image: ubuntu
      command:
        - echo
      args:
        - "Hello World!"

Apply task:

❯ kubectl apply -f task-hello-world.yml

Show task:

❯ tkn task list
NAME    DESCRIPTION   AGE
hello                 35 seconds ago

❯ tkn task start hello --dry-run
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  generateName: hello-run-
  namespace: tekton-pipelines
spec:
  resources: {}
  serviceAccountName: ""
  taskRef:
    name: hello
status:
  podName: ""

Start task:

❯ tkn task start hello
TaskRun started: hello-run-zsqm4

❯ tkn taskrun logs hello-run-zsqm4 -f -n tekton-pipelines
[hello] Hello World!

❯ tkn taskrun logs --last -f
[hello] Hello World!

Create dashboard:

kubectl apply --filename https://github.com/tektoncd/dashboard/releases/latest/download/tekton-dashboard-release.yaml
kubectl proxy --port=8080

Access dashboard localhost:8080/api/v1/namespaces/tekton-pipelines/services/tekton-dashboard:http/proxy/ or use port forwarding to access dashboard on localhost:9097:

kubectl --namespace tekton-pipelines port-forward svc/tekton-dashboard 9097:9097