Alternatives to Tekton
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Tekton is an open-source, Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework providing cloud-native pipeline primitives as Kubernetes CRDs, originally created by Google as part of the Knative project in 2018 and donated to the CD Foundation (now part of the Linux Foundation) in 2019. Tekton's design philosophy is building blocks over opinions — it provides the lowest-level Kubernetes-native pipeline primitives that platform engineers compose into custom CI/CD systems, not a pre-packaged CI/CD product.
ArgoCD
GitOps CD tool — Tekton handles CI builds; ArgoCD handles GitOps Kubernetes deployment
GitHub Actions
Ready-to-use CI/CD — Actions for teams wanting a product; Tekton for platform teams building a product
Jenkins
Traditional CI with plugins — Jenkins is the ready-to-run alternative to building on Tekton primitives
Flux
GitOps CD for Kubernetes — Tekton for CI pipeline execution; Flux for GitOps deployment sync
CircleCI
Managed CI/CD SaaS — CircleCI for teams wanting managed CI; Tekton for K8s-native DIY platforms
Drone
Container-native CI — simpler than Tekton for Docker-based pipelines without K8s complexity
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