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title: About Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
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# About Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines {#about-pipelines}

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution based on Kubernetes resources. It uses Tekton building blocks to automate deployments across multiple platforms by abstracting away the underlying implementation details. Tekton introduces a number of standard custom resource definitions (CRDs) for defining CI/CD pipelines that are portable across Kubernetes distributions.

> [!NOTE]
> Because Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines releases on a different cadence from OpenShift Container Platform, the Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines documentation is now available as a separate documentation set at [Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines](https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_pipelines).