Knative Service
A Knative Service is a Kubernetes resource that defines and manages a serverless application’s deployment, revisions, traffic routing, and autoscaling.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
A Knative Service is a Kubernetes resource that defines and manages the deployment, networking, revision history, and autoscaling of a containerized application service.
- How it is used
- Uses a single service resource to deploy containers and manage revision traffic for safer application releases.
- How deep it goes
- Works through a service definition and declarative traffic rules, but defers Knative Serving component internals.
- Examples
- Uses Conference application services, a Notifications service manifest, curl responses, and revision traffic configurations.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure it with kubectl and declarative traffic rules to test revisions, shift requests, or restore a stable version.
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Google Anthos in Action
A Knative Service is a resource that defines and manages a deployable serverless application, including its configuration, revisions, and traffic route.
- How it is used
- Deploys containerized HTTP(S) serverless workloads while combining lifecycle management, autoscaling, revisioning, and traffic routing.
- How deep it goes
- Defines Service, Configuration, Revision, and Route responsibilities, then demonstrates deployment and verification without detailing controller internals.
- Examples
- Uses a Hello World Python container, YAML manifests, kubectl resource inspection, generated URLs, curl requests, and weighted revision traffic.
- What you can do after
- Builds and operates a deployment via kubectl, then verifies generated resources, obtains its URL, and tests the application over HTTP.
Related concepts
- Knative Revisionproduces · A Knative Revision is an immutable snapshot of a workload’s container and configuration that represents a deployable serving version to which traffic can be routed.
- Kubernetes resourcekind of · A Kubernetes resource is a persistent API-managed object representing the desired or observed state of a workload, configuration, or other cluster entity.
- routingproduces · Routing is the selection of a path, destination, or processing component to direct an item, request, or flow toward an intended endpoint.
- podproduces · A Kubernetes Pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, grouping one or more co-located containers that share networking and other resources.
- Knative Configurationproduces · A Knative Configuration is a custom resource that declares the desired configuration of a workload independently from its container code.
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