Installing the CLI

In order to interact with Tekton from a terminal, you need to install the Tekton CLI (tkn).

Installing from binary

For macOS X

  1. Get the tar.gz:

    curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.4.0/tkn_0.4.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz

  2. Extract tkn to your PATH:

    sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.4.0_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin tkn

For Linux AMD64

  1. Get the tar.gz:

    curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.4.0/tkn_0.4.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz

  2. Extract tkn to your PATH:

    sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.4.0_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

For Linux ARM64

  1. Get the tar.gz:

    curl -LO https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.4.0/tkn_0.4.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz

  2. Extract tkn to your PATH:

    sudo tar xvzf tkn_0.4.0_Linux_arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin/ tkn

For Windows

  1. Get the .zip file:

    PS C:\Users\Admin\Downloads> curl -Uri https://github.com/tektoncd/cli/releases/download/v0.4.0/tkn_0.4.0_Windows_x86_64.zip
 -OutFile tkn_0.4.0_Windows_x86_64.zip

  2. Extract tkn to your path:

Expand-Archive -Path <sourcepath>/tkn_0.4.0_Windows_x86_64.zip -DestinationPath <destinationpath>