The tekton-pipelines package failed to reconcile when upgrading to TAP 1.12.1

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Platform

Issue/Introduction

The tekton-pipelines package failed to reconcile when upgrading to TAP (Tanzu Application Platform) 1.12.1 and below error message were observed when describing the failed PackageInstall:

Name:         tekton-pipelines
Namespace:    tap-install
......
Status:
  Conditions:
    Message:               Error (see .status.usefulErrorMessage for details)
    Status:                True
    Type:                  ReconcileFailed
  Friendly Description:    Reconcile failed: Error (see .status.usefulErrorMessage for details)
  Last Attempted Version:  0.56.7+tanzu.1
  Observed Generation:     7
  Useful Error Message:    kapp: Error: update customresourcedefinition/clustertasks.tekton.dev (apiextensions.k8s.io/v1) cluster:
  Updating resource customresourcedefinition/clustertasks.tekton.dev (apiextensions.k8s.io/v1) cluster:
    API server says:
      CustomResourceDefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io "clustertasks.tekton.dev" is invalid:
  - spec.conversion.strategy: Required value
  - spec.conversion.webhookClientConfig: Forbidden: should not be set when strategy is not set to Webhook
 (reason: Invalid)
  Version:  0.56.7+tanzu.1
Events:     <none>

Resolution

This is a known issue and can be fixed by applying the below overlay:

# Overlay secret for setting the missing values in ClusterTask CRD

cat << EOF | kubectl apply --validate=false -f -
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: tekton-ct-crd-conversion-overlay
  namespace: tap-install
stringData:
  add-ns-label.yml: |
    apiVersion: kapp.k14s.io/v1alpha1
    kind: Config

    rebaseRules:
    - path: [spec, conversion]
      type: remove
      sources: [existing]
      resourceMatchers:
      - kindNamespaceNameMatcher: {kind: CustomResourceDefinition, namespace: "", name: clustertasks.tekton.dev}
EOF


# Update TAP Values file to add that overlay to Tekton Package
package_overlays:
- name: tekton-pipelines
  secrets:
  - name: tekton-ct-crd-conversion-overlay