<p>What is the difference between using <a href="https://kustomize.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kustomize</a> and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/tekton/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tekton</a> for deployment?</p>

<p>To me it looks like Kustomize is a lightweight CI/CD client developer tool where you manually go in and do your CI/CD, where Tekton is automated CI/CD running within Kubernetes?</p>

<p>Kustomize is a tool for overriding (instead of templating) your Kubernetes manifest files. It it now built-in in kubectl with <code>kubectl apply -k</code>.</p>

<p>Tekton is a project for creating Kubernetes Custom Resources for building CICD pipelines of tasks on Kubernetes. One of the tasks in a pipeline can be an image with <code>kubectl</code> that apply the changes using Kustomize (<code>kubectl apply -k</code>).</p>
