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We can now specify a list of tasks needs to be executed just before
pipeline exits (either after finishing all non-final tasks successfully or after
a single failure)

Most useful for tasks such as report test results, cleanup cluster resources, etc

```
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: pipeline-with-final-tasks
spec:
  tasks:
    - name: pre-work
      taskRef:
        Name: some-pre-work
    - name: unit-test
      taskRef:
        Name: run-unit-test
      runAfter:
        - pre-work
    - name: integration-test
      taskRef:
        Name: run-integration-test
      runAfter:
        - unit-test
  finally:
    - name: cleanup-test
      taskRef:
        Name: cleanup-cluster
    - name: report-results
      taskRef:
        Name: report-test-results
```
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191 changes: 191 additions & 0 deletions docs/pipelines.md
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- [Configuring execution results at the `Pipeline` level](#configuring-execution-results-at-the-pipeline-level)
- [Configuring the `Task` execution order](#configuring-the-task-execution-order)
- [Adding a description](#adding-a-description)
- [Adding `Finally` to the `Pipeline`](#adding-finally-to-the-pipeline)
- [Code examples](#code-examples)

## Overview
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The `description` field is an optional field and can be used to provide description of the `Pipeline`.

## Adding `Finally` to the `Pipeline`

You can specify a list of one or more final tasks under `finally` section. Final tasks are guaranteed to be executed
after all `PipelineTasks` under `tasks` have completed regardless of success or error. Final tasks are very similar to
`PipelineTasks` under `tasks` section and follow the same syntax. Each final task must have a
[valid](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names/#names) `name` and a `taskRef` or
`taskSpec`. For example:

```yaml
spec:
tasks:
- name: tests
taskRef:
Name: integration-test
finally:
- name: cleanup-test
taskRef:
Name: cleanup
```

### Specifying `Workspaces` in Final Tasks

It is possible that the final tasks might require access to the same workspaces which `PipelineTasks` might have utilized
e.g. a mount point for credentials held in Secrets. To support that requirement, you can specify one or more
`Workspaces` in the `workspaces` field for the final tasks similar to `tasks`.

```yaml
spec:
resources:
- name: app-git
type: git
workspaces:
- name: shared-workspace
tasks:
- name: clone-app-source
taskRef:
name: clone-app-repo-to-workspace
workspaces:
- name: shared-workspace
workspace: shared-workspace
resources:
inputs:
- name: app-git
resource: app-git
finally:
- name: cleanup-workspace
taskRef:
name: cleanup-workspace
workspaces:
- name: shared-workspace
workspace: shared-workspace
```

### Specifying `Parameters` in Final Tasks

Again, similar to `tasks`, you can specify [`Parameters`](tasks.md#specifying-parameters):

```yaml
spec:
tasks:
- name: tests
taskRef:
Name: integration-test
finally:
- name: report-results
taskRef:
Name: report-results
params:
- name: url
value: $(params.url)
```

### `PipelineRun` Status with `finally`

With `finally`, `PipelineRun` status is calculated based on `PipelineTasks` under `tasks` section and final tasks.

Without `finally`:

| `PipelineTasks` under `tasks` | `PipelineRun` status | Reason |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------- | ------ |
| all `PipelineTasks` successful | `true` | `Succeeded` |
| one or more `PipelineTasks` skipped and rest successful | `true` | `Completed` |
| single failure of `PipelineTask` | `false` | `failed` |

With `finally`:

| `PipelineTasks` under `tasks` | Final Tasks | `PipelineRun` status | Reason |
| ----------------------------- | ----------- | -------------------- | ------ |
| all `PipelineTask` successful | all final tasks successful | `true` | `Succeeded` |
| all `PipelineTask` successful | one or more failure of final tasks | `false` | `Failed` |
| one or more `PipelineTask` skipped and rest successful | all final tasks successful | `true` | `Completed` |
| one or more `PipelineTask` skipped and rest successful | one or more failure of final tasks | `false` | `Failed` |
| single failure of `PipelineTask` | all final tasks successful | `false` | `failed` |
| single failure of `PipelineTask` | one or more failure of final tasks | `false` | `failed` |

### Known Limitations

### Specifying `Resources` in Final Tasks

Similar to `tasks`, you can use [PipelineResources](#specifying-resources) as inputs and outputs for
final tasks in the Pipeline. The only difference here is, final tasks with an input resource can not have a `from` clause
like a `PipelineTask` from `tasks` section. For example:

```yaml
spec:
tasks:
- name: tests
taskRef:
Name: integration-test
resources:
inputs:
- name: source
resource: tektoncd-pipeline-repo
outputs:
- name: workspace
resource: my-repo
finally:
- name: clear-workspace
taskRef:
Name: clear-workspace
resources:
inputs:
- name: workspace
resource: my-repo
from:
- tests
```

### Cannot configure the Final Task execution order

It's not possible to configure or modify the execution order of the final tasks. Unlike `Tasks` in a `Pipeline`,
all final tasks run simultaneously and starts executing once all `PipelineTasks` under `tasks` have settled which means
no `runAfter` can be specified in final tasks.

### Cannot specify execution `Conditions` in Final Tasks

`Tasks` in a `Pipeline` can be configured to run only if some conditions are satisfied using `conditions`. But the
final tasks are guaranteed to be executed after all `PipelineTasks` therefore no `conditions` can be specified in
final tasks.

#### Cannot configure `Task` execution results with `finally`

Final tasks can not be configured to consume `Results` of `PipelineTask` from `tasks` section i.e. the following
example is not supported right now but we are working on adding support for the same.

```yaml
spec:
tasks:
- name: count-comments-before
taskRef:
Name: count-comments
- name: add-comment
taskRef:
Name: add-comment
- name: count-comments-after
taskRef:
Name: count-comments
finally:
- name: check-count
taskRef:
Name: check-count
params:
- name: before-count
value: $(tasks.count-comments-before.results.count)
- name: after-count
value: $(tasks.count-comments-after.results.count)
```

#### Cannot configure `Pipeline` result with `finally`

Final tasks can emit `Results` but results emitted from the final tasks can not be configured in the
[Pipeline Results](#configuring-execution-results-at-the-pipeline-level). We are working on adding support for this.

```yaml
results:
- name: comment-count-validate
value: $(finally.check-count.results.comment-count-validate)
```

In this example, `PipelineResults` is set to:

```
"pipelineResults": [
{
"name": "comment-count-validate",
"value": "$(finally.check-count.results.comment-count-validate)"
}
],
```

## Code examples

For a better understanding of `Pipelines`, study [our code examples](https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/tree/master/examples).
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// Results are values that this pipeline can output once run
// +optional
Results []PipelineResult `json:"results,omitempty"`
// Finally declares the list of Tasks that execute just before leaving the Pipeline
// i.e. either after all Tasks are finished executing successfully
// or after a failure which would result in ending the Pipeline
Finally []PipelineTask `json:"finally,omitempty"`
}

// PipelineResult used to describe the results of a pipeline
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return nil
}

// build DAG with a list of final tasks, this DAG is used later to identify
// if a task from PipelineRunState is one of the tasks specified under finally section
// the finally section is optional and might not be specified
// in case this section is not specified, dfinally holds an empty Graph
dfinally, err := dag.Build(v1beta1.PipelineTaskList(pipelineSpec.Finally))
if err != nil {
// This Run has failed, so we need to mark it as failed and stop reconciling it
pr.Status.SetCondition(&apis.Condition{
Type: apis.ConditionSucceeded,
Status: corev1.ConditionFalse,
Reason: ReasonInvalidGraph,
Message: fmt.Sprintf("PipelineRun %s's Pipeline DAG is invalid: %s",
fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", pr.Namespace, pr.Name), err),
})
return nil
}

if err := pipelineSpec.Validate(ctx); err != nil {
// This Run has failed, so we need to mark it as failed and stop reconciling it
pr.Status.SetCondition(&apis.Condition{
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// Apply parameter substitution from the PipelineRun
pipelineSpec = resources.ApplyParameters(pipelineSpec, pr)

// pipelineState holds a list of pipeline tasks with resolved conditions and pipeline resources
// pipelineState also holds a taskRun for each pipeline task after the taskRun is created
// pipelineState is instantiated on every reconcile cycle
pipelineState, err := resources.ResolvePipelineRun(ctx,
*pr,
func(name string) (v1beta1.TaskInterface, error) {
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func(name string) (*v1alpha1.Condition, error) {
return c.conditionLister.Conditions(pr.Namespace).Get(name)
},
pipelineSpec.Tasks, providedResources,
append(pipelineSpec.Tasks, pipelineSpec.Finally...), providedResources,
)

if err != nil {
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}
}

// candidateTasks contains a list of pipeline tasks that can be scheduled next
// This list of candidates is derived based on the successfully finished tasks
// A task is considered as candidate if its all parents have finished executing successfully
// candidateTasks are initialized with all root/s of DAG tasks
candidateTasks, err := dag.GetSchedulable(d, pipelineState.SuccessfulPipelineTaskNames()...)
if err != nil {
c.Logger.Errorf("Error getting potential next tasks for valid pipelinerun %s: %v", pr.Name, err)
}

// GetNextTasks returns a list of tasks which should be executed next and is derived based on candidateTasks
// GetNextTasks returns a list of candidates for which pipelineState does not have any taskRun or a list of
// failed tasks which haven't exhausted their retries
// Pipeline execution continues until GetNextTasks does not return any new pipeline task to execute
nextRprts := pipelineState.GetNextTasks(candidateTasks)
// GetFinalTasks returns a list of final tasks without any taskRun associated with it
// GetFinalTasks returns final tasks only when all DAG tasks have finished executing successfully or
// executing any one DAG task resulted in failure
nextRprts = append(nextRprts, pipelineState.GetFinalTasks(d, dfinally)...)

resolvedResultRefs, err := resources.ResolveResultRefs(pipelineState, nextRprts)
if err != nil {
c.Logger.Infof("Failed to resolve all task params for %q with error %v", pr.Name, err)
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