Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Running tekton-lint against a pipeline using matrix parameters it does not seem to detect the matrix parameters and raises an error about missing parameters.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if tekton-lint could detect matrix parameter definitions.

Describe alternatives you've considered
n/a

Additional context
https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/matrix/

With the same behavior as in ESLint

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
At the moment the tool supports only some pre-defined rules defined here https://github.com/IBM/tekton-lint/blob/main/src/rule-loader.ts
It would be great if users could provide (and leave them to maintain) their custom rule implementations and specify how to treat the findings (e.g. error, warning, etc..).

An example would be like the following:

const forbidPipelinesWithoutRequiredAnnotation = (docs, tekton, report) => {
    for (const pipeline of Object.values(tekton.pipelines)) {

        const pipelineAnnotations = Object.keys(pipeline.metadata.annotations);

        if (!pipelineAnnotations.includes('my/required-annotation')) {
            report(
                `Pipeline '${pipeline.metadata.name}' does not specify the 'my/required-annotation' annotation`,
            );
        }
    }
};

module.exports = {
    rules: {
        'no-required-annotations': 'error'
    },
    customRules: {
        'no-required-annotations': forbidPipelinesWithoutRequiredAnnotation
    }
}

Describe the solution you'd like
Support (on top of the yaml configuration) a JS (or TS) configuration file as well, e.g. .tektonlintrc.js where it is possible to define a set of custom rules or provide a specific rule as a function (instead of providing a string 'error' or 'warning', and leave the implementation to handle it).

Describe alternatives you've considered
At the moment there is no way to provide custom rules since they are specified in the mentioned file above

Additional context
Add JS File loader in the ./src/config.ts main constructor. An example below:

if (fs.lstatSync(user_tektonlintrc).isDirectory()) {
    user_tektonlintrc = path.join(user_tektonlintrc, '.tektonlintrc.yaml');
}

if (fs.lstatSync(user_tektonlintjs).isDirectory()) {
    user_tektonlintjs = path.join(user_tektonlintjs, '.tektonlintrc.js');
}

let customRcConfig = {
    ...defaultConfig
};

if (fs.existsSync(user_tektonlintrc)) {
    const customRcFile = fs.readFileSync(user_tektonlintrc, 'utf8');
    customRcConfig = yaml.parse(customRcFile);

    logger.info('Using .tektonlintrc.yaml at %s', user_tektonlintrc);
    logger.info('customConfig %o', customRcConfig);
} else if (fs.existsSync(user_tektonlintjs)) {
    customRcConfig = require(user_tektonlintjs);

    logger.info('Using .tektonlintrc.js at %s', user_tektonlintrc);
    logger.info('customConfig %o', customRcConfig);
} else {
    logger.warn('Unable to find configuration - using defaults');
}

this._rulesConfig = { ...customRcConfig };
this._rulesConfig.rules = { ...customRcConfig.rules };
this._rulesConfig.customRules = { ...customRcConfig.customRules };
this._globs = [...cliConfig['_'], ...(customRcConfig.globs ? customRcConfig.globs : ['_'])];

As you can see below we have a ClusterTask being used at our pipelines and tekton-lint shows it's reference as missing, but it is defined

/workdir # tekton-lint tasks/* pipelines/pipeline.yml  --quiet
pipelines/pipeline-confluence-docs-default.yml:
error   (38,15,38,28): Pipeline 'docs-default' references task 'webhook-debug' but the referenced task cannot be found. To fix this, include all the task definitions to the lint task for this pipeline.


/workdir # head -n5 tasks/cluster-task-webhook-debug.yml 
---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: ClusterTask
metadata:
  name: webhook-debug

/workdir # grep 'webhook-debug' -C1 pipelines/pipeline-docs.yml 
      taskRef:
        name: webhook-debug
        kind: ClusterTask

step-1 is not a task name (it's the name of the TaskRun). Actually, there's no standalone task, it's using an embedded task using taskSpec.

Handle the tt.params syntax for names

see https://tekton.dev/docs/triggers/triggertemplates/#specifying-parameters

This project would be useful to any Tekton Task author. Have you considered donating this project to the tektoncd community?

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-param rule.

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-param rule.

In 0.5.2 we should report missing parameters in taskSpec tasks

Example:

    - name: inline-task
      params:
        - name: pipeline-debug
          value: $(params.pipeline-debug)
      workspaces:
        - name: secrets
          workspace: artifacts
      taskSpec:
        workspaces:
          - name: secrets
            mountPath: /secrets
        params:
          - name: pipeline-debug
        stepTemplate:
          env:
            - name: PIPELINE_RUN_ID
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.annotations['devops.cloud.ibm.com/tekton-pipeline']
        steps:
          - name: setup
            image: node:alpine
            script: |
              #!/bin/bash

              set -e -o pipefail

              if [ $PIPELINE_DEBUG == 1 ]; then
                pwd
                env
                trap env EXIT
                set -x
              fi

              export TOKEN=$(cat "/secrets/$(params.token)")

The line
export TOKEN=$(cat "/secrets/$(params.token)") use a parameter token which was not added nor provided for the task, the linter is missing this.

The tekton-lint npm package seems to have an "Apache-2.0" license in NPM, since it is specified in the package.json.
However, it would make it even more clearer to have a LICENSE file in the repository, so the GitHub interface could show the license and could also be returned by the GitHub API.

It is trivial to add a license on GitHub. The easiest way is through the web interface: Go to "Add file" then "Create new file", enter LICENSE as the file name, then a new button appears with "Choose a license template". Select the Apache 2.0, and finish up and commit. I added my own screenshots below, but some help is also available in the GitHub docs here:
https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/adding-a-license-to-a-repository

I could make a pull request too, but I think it's more appropriate to have it committed by the owners or maintainers.

Thanks!

We have a bunch of pipelines with the finally section.
The problem is that we see warning like the following:
warning (15,7,17,1): Pipeline 'pipeline-xx-yy-zzz' defines parameter 'example', but it's not used anywhere in the spec
and in the pipeline we have:

  finally:
    - name: yyyyyyy
      taskRef:
        name: task-yyyyyy
      params:
        - name: example
          value: $(params.example)
      workspaces:
        - name: task-pvc
          workspace: pipeline-pvc

Is any way to fix this?

Given this example... it will fail as the workspace defined in the task just uses the name field - code is assuming that the workspace field is present instead

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name:  run-checks
spec:
  params:
  workspaces:
    - name: workspace-checks
  tasks:
    - name: run-checks
      taskRef:
        name: task-run-checks
      workspaces:
        - name: workspace-checks

Documentation here indicates that workspace is optional
https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/pipeline-api/#tekton.dev/v1.WorkspacePipelineTaskBinding

Adjusting the code so that if workspace is specified it must match up with the one defined in the pipeline, if it's not present the name must match up instead.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, the tekton-lint tool does not properly handle parameters of type object in Tekton pipeline definitions. This causes issues when parameters of this type are used in tasks, resulting in incorrect warnings and errors.

For example, given a parameter defined as:

- name: gitRepository
  description: Git Repository.
  type: object
  properties:
    defaultBranch:
      type: string
    name:
      type: string
    owner:
      type: string

And its usage in a task:

- name: repositoryName
  value: $(params.gitRepository.name)

The tool incorrectly reports:

Undefined param 'gitRepository.name' at .spec.tasks[2].params[8].value in 'git-clone'

Describe the solution you'd like
The tool should correctly recognize and handle parameters of type object and their properties, without reporting them as undefined.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context
https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/tasks/#object-type

It should be reported by the no-extra-param rule.

Conditions are deprecated in favor of WhenExpressions
See https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/blob/v0.16.3/docs/pipelines.md#guard-task-execution-using-conditions

First off, congratulations on your open source release! That's momentous!

Now, on to the error. Linting my pipeline results in the following:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'spec' of undefined
    at /mnt/c/Users/JAMESTANNER/Development/microservices-build-agent/node_modules/tekton-lint/rules/no-undefined-result.js:14:83

I think that this happens because I've got an external task which is loaded separately from the catalog. So it's not included in the files being linted. So there's a taskref in the pipeline, but no task to match against.

I'd expect the behavior here to be a warning, or perhaps a displayed error, about the missing task. But I'd expect the linter to complete rather than throwing an internal error.

If you have access to the IBM internal github, the pipeline in question is here: https://github.ibm.com/TAAS/microservices-builds/blob/main/tekton-pipeline/pipeline-push.yaml
From some extra logging I injected into the code, it looks like it fails on the fetch-from-git task.

tekton-lint (5.0) is complaining on the following file: https://github.com/open-toolchain/tekton-catalog/blob/master/git/sample-skip-ci/listener-skip-ci.yaml

git/sample-skip-ci/listener-skip-ci.yaml:
error   (54,9,54,22): 'github-commit' is already defined (as a 'TriggerBinding')
error   (69,9,69,22): 'github-commit' is already defined (as a 'EventListener')
...

AFAIK nothing prevent to use same name for different K8S resources/Tekton resources as long as they are of different types

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-param rule.

This should be reported by prefer-when-expression

It should be reported by the no-extra-param rule.

Names (ie. metadata.name) must be DNS subdomain names.

These should be reported by no-invalid-name

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

make a github action for this tool.

Describe the solution you'd like

make a github action support for this tool so that we can easily integrate this tool with open source project.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Tekton CD TEP 003 suggests a deprecation label be used on Resources that are to be marked as deprecated in a catalog.

Linter should watch for the label tekton.dev/deprecated: true and show a warning (or error if the user override the rule severity with their custom config).

Example for non-deprecated resource

---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: some-task
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.0.3"
spec:

Example for a deprecated resource

---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: some-task
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/version: "1.0.3"
    tekton.dev/deprecated: true
spec:

tekton-lint should have a rule which checks how a Task is used. Either with:

• script
• command & args

Developers should follow a convention and use only one of these consistently. We should add a rule which checks this and warns the developers if they are mixed.

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-param rule.

I recently started using pre-commit to manage the installation and running of linters in one of my projects. Basically (read their docs for more info) developers on projects can save references to linters/checkers/etc in a .pre-commit-config.yaml file in their repository, and new developers can get them installed more quickly and consistently - plus they can be configured to run on every git commit.

Some of the linters "supported" by pre-commit are in mirrors of the main projects (for example: prettier), but other projects have added the required hook definitions to their repositories directly (for example: go-jsonnet). I think it would be great if we supported using tekton-lint through pre-commit.

To "support" using pre-commit with this project, we would just need to add a .pre-commit-hooks.yaml file, with some specific information. I've made a simple fork to test this out, and it looks good - although more tests might be needed: https://github.com/JustinKuli/tekton-lint/blob/main/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml. I'd be happy to open a PR based on that if there is interest.

To be clear, I'm not proposing that this project should start using/enforcing use of pre-commit in its own development workflow. This issue is focused on making tekton-lint easier for other projects to use via pre-commit.

Hey All!

Im trying to add the Tekton-lint to the GitHub Super-Linter and have 1 ask for improvement.

Currently, if you run the following code:

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Task
metadata:
  name: example-task-name
spec:
  params:
    - name: pathToDockerFile
      type: string
      description: The path to the dockerfile to build
      default: /workspace/workspace/Dockerfile
  resources:
    inputs:
      - name: workspace
        type: git
    outputs:
      - name: builtImage
        type: image
  steps:
    - name: ubuntu-example
      image: ubuntu
      args: ["ubuntu-build-example", "SECRETS-example.md"]
    - image: gcr.io/example-builders/build-example
      command: ["echo"]
      args: ["$(params.pathToDockerFile)"]
    - name: dockerfile-pushexample
      image: gcr.io/example-builders/push-example
      args: ["push", "$(resources.outputs.builtImage.url)"]
      volumeMounts:
        - name: example-volume
          mountPath: /var/run/docker.sock
  volumes:
    - name: example-volume
      emptyDir: {}

It will complete successfully with error code 0

But if i remove the line:

kind: Task

It will run and show no output, and exit with exit code 0... Can this be set to exit with error code if it fails to read the data?

thanks!

With the same behavior as in ESLint.

Hi there,

Just tried out your new lint tool (congrats!) and I got many errors like the following:
error (4,9,4,20): 'ci-template' is already defined (as a 'TriggerTemplate')

The reason is that I've multiple folders containing tekton definitions and sometimes they have the same name used in another folder. This is fine for my use as my toolchains only pulls in one of these folders. Can we have a switch that only checks for dupe names within the same folder... maybe there already is?

Each rule should have its own test file:

• no-deprecated-resource #55
• no-duplicate-env #32
• no-duplicate-param #35
• no-duplicate-resource
• no-extra-param #41
• no-invalid-name #56
• no-invalid-param-type
• no-latest-image
• no-missing-param
• no-missing-resource
• no-missing-workspace
• no-pipeline-missing-task
• no-pipeline-task-cycle
• no-resourceversion
• no-undefined-param
• no-undefined-result
• no-undefined-volume
• no-unused-param
• prefer-beta
• prefer-kebab-case
• prefer-when-expression #52

Describe the bug

I received a 500 from the backend with this syntax:

spec:
  triggers:
    - bindings:
        name: github-pr-binding
      template:
        name: pr-template

with pipelineId: c2cd6a8d-ea5a-47b0-913e-cd172d63833f, transactionId: d0a52994-03da-4841-9a45-8e6d375fbb19, error: (trigger.bindings || (trigger.binding && [trigger.binding]) || []).forEach is not a function at TypeError: (trigger.bindings || (trigger.binding && [trigger.binding]) || []).forEach is not a function
    at Object.getTemplatedResources (/home/node/lib/pipelineutil.js:708:76)

To Reproduce

spec:
  triggers:
    - bindings:
        name: github-pr-binding
      template:
        name: pr-template

Expected behavior

I expected a linting error.
I expected a proper error handling in the backend.

The fix

spec:
  triggers:
    - bindings:
        - name: github-pr-binding
      template:
        name: pr-template

Thank you :)

It's a common pattern to bundle a Pipeline + TriggerBinding + TriggerTemplate + EventListener into a subfolder, where these resources have the same name, but they live in different namespaces.

.
├── foo/
│   ├── listener.yaml
│   ├── trigger.yaml
│   ├── binding.yaml
│   └── pipeline.yaml
├── bar/
│   ├── listener.yaml
│   ├── trigger.yaml
│   ├── binding.yaml
│   └── pipeline.yaml
└── tasks/
    ├── task-1.yaml
    └── task-2.yaml

The linter should be able to handle these definitions.

original issue: #4

When running on the latest release:

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'key'

For example a task with workspaces defined as

    - name: secrets
      description: |
        What directory contains the secrets required for this task?
      optional: true
      readOnly: true
      mountPath: /run/pipeline/secrets

when used would report an error if the optional workspace wasn't specified.

Updated to only report mandatory workspaces

It should be reported by the no-extra-param rule.

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-env rule.

It should be reported by the no-duplicate-env rule.