Chapter 1. Installing OpenShift Pipelines

Procedure

1. In the Administrator perspective of the web console, navigate to Operators OperatorHub.
2. Use the Filter by keyword box to search for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator in the catalog. Click the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator tile.
3. Read the brief description about the Operator on the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator page. Click Install.

4. On the Install Operator page:

   1. Select All namespaces on the cluster (default) for the Installation Mode. This mode installs the Operator in the default openshift-operators namespace, which enables the Operator to watch and be made available to all namespaces in the cluster.
   2. Select Automatic for the Approval Strategy. This ensures that the future upgrades to the Operator are handled automatically by the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM). If you select the Manual approval strategy, OLM creates an update request. As a cluster administrator, you must then manually approve the OLM update request to update the Operator to the new version.

   3. Select an Update Channel.

      • The latest channel enables installation of the most recent stable version of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator. Currently, it is the default channel for installing the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

      • To install a specific version of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator, cluster administrators can use the corresponding pipelines-<version> channel. For example, to install the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator version 1.8.x, you can use the pipelines-1.8 channel.

        Note

        Starting with OpenShift Container Platform 4.11, the preview and stable channels for installing and upgrading the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator are not available. However, in OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 and earlier versions, you can use the preview and stable channels for installing and upgrading the Operator.

5. Click Install. You will see the Operator listed on the Installed Operators page.

   Note

   The Operator is installed automatically into the openshift-operators namespace.

6. Verify that the Status is set to Succeeded Up to date to confirm successful installation of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

   Warning

   The success status may show as Succeeded Up to date even if installation of other components is in-progress. Therefore, it is important to verify the installation manually in the terminal.

7. Verify that all components of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator were installed successfully. Login to the cluster on the terminal, and run the following command:

   $ oc get tektonconfig config

   Example output

   NAME     VERSION   READY   REASON
   config   1.16.0     True

   If the READY condition is True, the Operator and its components have been installed successfully.

   Additonally, check the components' versions by running the following command:

   $ oc get tektonpipeline,tektontrigger,tektonchain,tektonaddon,pac

   Example output

   NAME                                          VERSION   READY   REASON
   tektonpipeline.operator.tekton.dev/pipeline   v0.47.0   True
   
   NAME                                        VERSION   READY   REASON
   tektontrigger.operator.tekton.dev/trigger   v0.23.1   True
   
   NAME                                    VERSION   READY   REASON
   tektonchain.operator.tekton.dev/chain   v0.16.0   True
   
   NAME                                    VERSION   READY   REASON
   tektonaddon.operator.tekton.dev/addon   1.11.0     True
   
   NAME                                                             VERSION   READY   REASON
   openshiftpipelinesascode.operator.tekton.dev/pipelines-as-code   v0.19.0   True

Procedure

1. Create a Subscription object YAML file to subscribe a namespace to the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator, for example, sub.yaml:

   Example Subscription

   apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
   kind: Subscription
   metadata:
     name: openshift-pipelines-operator
     namespace: openshift-operators
   spec:
     channel:  <channel name> 1
     name: openshift-pipelines-operator-rh 2
     source: redhat-operators 3
     sourceNamespace: openshift-marketplace 4

   1

   The channel name of the Operator. The pipelines-<version> channel is the default channel. For example, the default channel for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator version 1.7 is pipelines-1.7. The latest channel enables installation of the most recent stable version of the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator.

   2

   Name of the Operator to subscribe to.

   3

   Name of the CatalogSource that provides the Operator.

   4

   Namespace of the CatalogSource. Use openshift-marketplace for the default OperatorHub CatalogSources.

2. Create the Subscription object:

   $ oc apply -f sub.yaml

   The subscription installs the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines Operator into the openshift-operators namespace. The Operator automatically installs OpenShift Pipelines into the default openshift-pipelines target namespace.