front matter
Over the last couple of years, Knative has seen rapid growth in adoption and maturity, with a flourishing ecosystem that’s building around and on top of it. Knative in Action by Jacques Chester is a long overdue book, giving the user a well-structured, easy approach, and a clearly written grounds-up explanation on what Knative is, what kinds of problems it helps the user tackle, and how to best utilize Knative to solve those problems.
The examples in this book are super easy to follow, cleverly written (many lols were had while reading the pre-release version of the book), and build up the material in easy to approach piece-meal chunks. In particular, I liked the real-world examples and great illustrations. I also enjoyed following along, as it was easy to re-create the examples and to gain an understanding of the various components, resources, and trade-offs.
As Knative is still seeing rapid development, Jacques also provides a balanced viewpoint for things that still need to be worked on (for example, a richer filtering model). He also discusses ways to work around those limitations.