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Currently, finalizers in Results, Chains and PaC are managed using Merge Patches + resourceVersion check. Because of that check and multiple controllers updating the same types of objects (TaskRun and PipelineRun), many times the update fails because the object is updated by another client/controller, leading to many re-tries.
With Server-Side Apply, each controller can manage their own finalizer, without conflicts and without re-tries. Currently all controllers use functionality exposed by Pipelines to the change to support Server-Side Apply patches should be first added there and then start switching all controllers to make use of this new functionality.

This story is about adding the functionality in Pipelines.

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Updating Results/Chains/PaC to use Server-Side Apply patches. Those will be separate stories.

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• Code is completed, reviewed, documented and checked in
• Unit and integration test automation have been delivered and running cleanly in continuous integration/staging/canary environment
• Continuous Delivery pipeline(s) is able to proceed with new code included
• Customer facing documentation, API docs etc. are produced/updated, reviewed and published
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