1. The Advantages of Multi-Cluster Tekton Builds Thanks to Kubernetes, Tekton already has good elasticity and can support large-scale builds. At the same time, developing Tasks mainly uses Yaml and Shell, which widens the range of scenarios Tekton can adapt to. The figure above is a sketch of Tekton across multiple clusters.

1. Basic Features of a CICD Platform A common CICD engine is not suitable to hand directly to the business side. The main reasons are the high learning cost for users, the lack of necessary authentication, and the difficulty of maintenance and upgrades. We usually build on top of a process engine, adapting it to the business to improve usability and encapsulating it for specific scenarios to reduce complexity.

1. Why Physical Build Machines Are Needed In the article How to Add a Remote macOS Physical Machine for Jenkins Pipeline Builds, I described how to add a physical build machine in Jenkins. This was not a requirement I made up on a whim — at the time, real ToB commercial customers were actually asking for a solution.

1. On the Aesthetics of CICD Tools In the document A Software Product Is the Output of a Team’s Capability, I mentioned that a software product is the delivery vehicle for a solution, and that its quality depends on the team’s understanding of the core problem. Only with a deep understanding of the domain can the delivered product have a chance of being good.