High-Level Description (Executive Summary)

Enable Kubernetes service accounts to act as approvers for ApprovalTask resources, allowing automated CI/CD systems and pods to programmatically approve or reject manual approval gates in Tekton pipelines.

Goals

Who benefits:

• DevOps teams using automated CI/CD systems with Tekton pipelines

• Organizations wanting to integrate external approval workflows (PR approvals, security scans, etc.) with pipeline gates

• Teams needing programmatic approval capabilities alongside human approvers

Current State vs Future State:

• Today: Only human users can approve ApprovalTasks through manual interaction

• Future: Both human users and service accounts can approve, enabling automated approval workflows based on external conditions (PR approvals, test results, security checks, etc.)

Upstream feature request - https://github.com/openshift-pipelines/manual-approval-gate/issues/743