Pipeline Labels to search by Pipeline Types

[kcbimonte]

Problem

The project that I work on has created a fair amount of pipeline templates using Carvel's ytt in order to assign consistency to pipelines but also quickly spin up new pipelines in an easy way. Currently the way we identify these pipeline types across teams is having a suffix of {project}-container-pipeline or {project}-microservice-pipeline. Understandably these pipeline names can get a bit wordy if the prefix name is lengthy in itself.

Potential Solution

Proposing adding the concept of labels to pipelines to be searched against and display within the UI similar to how issues / pull requests work in GitHub. A new section could be created called pipeline_config which contains the already existing background_image property and a new labels property that would be an array of potential labels.

Potential Problems

The one potential problem I could see if the display of these labels. With one to two labels, this issue probably doesn't exist, but if Pipeline Engineers add 5, 10, or more labels, the display would become a problem.