Host Tekton StepActions on ArtifactHub

[chitrangpatel]

Tekton Pipelines introduced StepActions in v0.54.0. We want to provide a catalog of Tekton StepActions and host them on ArtifactHub like we do for Tekton Tasks and Pipelines.

What would be required to enable this in ArtifactHub? I was not involved with setting up Tasks and Pipelines so I'd appreciate any help.

cc @vdemeester @afrittoli

[tegioz]

Hi @chitrangpatel 👋

We'd be happy to add support for Tekton StepActions as a new artifact kind.

Please take a look at the following links to see how Tekton tasks and pipelines repositories work in Artifact Hub:

https://artifacthub.io/docs/topics/repositories/tekton-tasks/
https://artifacthub.io/docs/topics/repositories/tekton-pipelines/
https://artifacthub.io/docs/topics/annotations/tekton/

Is there a Tekton StepActions catalog source repository we can take a look at? (i.e. like https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog/tree/main/task and https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog/tree/main/pipeline).

[chitrangpatel]

Thanks for the quick reply @tegioz . We are in the process of adding StepActions to our GitHub catalog. The structure will be identical to that of Tasks and Pipelines.

I will reach out again as soon as we have something there.

[tegioz]

Awesome, thanks! 👍

[chitrangpatel]

Hi @tegioz we now have a StepAction in our Github Catalog: https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog/tree/main/stepaction/git-clone/0.1

What are the next steps?

[tegioz]

Thanks @chitrangpatel 👍

We'll look into it and add support for this new kind. We'll ping you when it's ready 🙂

[chitrangpatel]

Thanks @tegioz !

Do you have a prospective timeline on this, just so that we can leave some estimates in our tracking issues. Please let me know if we can do anything to help with this.

[tegioz]

Yes, we'll probably work on this next week 🙂

[tegioz]

This is mostly ready @chitrangpatel!

Quick question: any chance we can have a description field in the StepActionSpec type, like you have in PipelineSpec and TaskSpec? That's the description we display on the UI 😇

[chitrangpatel]

We do not have that currently. I think we will add it before the next release. Any chance we can go ahead without it and add it once we implement it in the Spec?

[tegioz]

Sure, no problem 👍

It'd be great if you could ping us when it's ready and part of a release to improve the StepActions support 🙂

[tegioz]

Done in #3745!

We've just deployed it to the staging environment, you can see it in action here. We'll deploy it to production soon 🙂

[chitrangpatel]

Hi @tegioz!
I don't see StepActions on https://artifacthub.io/. Did anything go wrong?

[tegioz]

Hi @chitrangpatel!

It looks like no StepActions repositories have been published on https://artifacthub.io yet. I added one to staging to test everything was working fine, but in production ideally this should be done by the owner of the repository so that the UI displays the correct publisher 🙂

You can do it from the AH control panel (if you do it from the Tekton organization much better). Please let me know if you have any problems!