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= Creating a trigger using `kn`

The Knative CLI provides a set of `kn trigger` commands that can be used to create and manage triggers.

.Procedure

* Create a trigger:
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$ kn trigger create <trigger_name> --broker <broker_name> --filter <key=value> --sink <sink_name>
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Alternatively, you can create a trigger and simultaneously create the `default` broker using broker injection:
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[source,terminal]
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$ kn trigger create <trigger_name> --inject-broker --filter <key=value> --sink <sink_name>
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By default, triggers forward all events sent to a broker to sinks that are subscribed to that broker.
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Using the `--filter` attribute for triggers allows you to filter events from a broker, so that subscribers will only receive a subset of events based on your defined criteria.
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