Cancel In-Progress Tekton Pipelines: Stop Wasting CI on Outdated Commits
Push a commit to a merge request and your review pipeline starts. Spot a typo, push again thirty seconds later - and now two pipelines are running, one of them validating a commit that no longer matters. GitHub Actions solved this years ago with concurrency.cancel-in-progress; Tekton has no built-in equivalent, so on a Tekton-based platform those superseded runs keep burning CPU until they finish, producing results nobody will read.
KubeRocketCI 3.14 closes that gap with a single chart flag: pipelines.cancelInProgress. When enabled, the KRCI Tekton interceptor cancels still-running review PipelineRuns for the same pull request before triggering the replacement. The cancellation is graceful (CancelledRunFinally): the superseded run still executes its finally tasks, so your git provider gets a status for the old commit instead of an eternally "pending" check. This post shows the whole flow live on the local try-kuberocketci testbed - every screenshot and command output is from a real run.