Knative
Knative is an open-source, Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and operating serverless and event-driven workloads.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
Knative Serving is the Knative component that provides deployment, revision, networking, and traffic-management capabilities for serverless workloads on Kubernetes.
- How it is used
- Provides Kubernetes teams with service deployment and traffic controls for experimenting with application revisions during releases.
- How deep it goes
- Works through service definitions and revision-routing patterns, but defers Knative Serving component internals.
- Examples
- Uses the Conference application's notifications and frontend services to demonstrate YAML definitions, version responses, traffic splits, and tagged routes.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Knative Services to deploy revisions and route traffic between application versions for staged releases.
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Google Anthos in Action
Knative is an open-source platform that extends Kubernetes for deploying and running cloud-native workloads, including serverless applications.
- How it is used
- Deploys portable container-based serverless workloads on Kubernetes while simplifying scaling, routing, events, and observability.
- How deep it goes
- Explains platform roles, architecture, installation stages, and deployment options without detailing individual resource manifests or runtime internals.
- Examples
- Uses Kubernetes serverless architecture, Serving and Eventing installation stages, service-mesh gateways, revisions, and managed Knative services.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Knative across cloud or on-premises Kubernetes environments and choose between self-managed and managed deployment.
Quarkus in Action
Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform that provides components for serving and running serverless workloads.
- How it is used
- Deploys intermittently used Quarkus services as serverless workloads that start for requests and stop when idle.
- How deep it goes
- Explains application creation, configuration, deployment, scale-to-zero, cold starts, and concurrent scaling without detailing Knative internals.
- Examples
- Uses a Quarkus car-statistics function that queries Inventory with GraphQL and demonstrates routes, cold starts, and concurrent pod creation.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch, configure it, deploy it through Quarkus, and observe scale-to-zero and concurrent scaling.
Related concepts
- Kubernetesuses · Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating and automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized workloads across computing clusters.
- scalabilityuses · Scalability is the ability of a system, process, or method to accommodate increasing workload, size, or demand while maintaining acceptable operation.
- Kubernetes extensionkind of · A Kubernetes extension is an organization-specific addition that expands Kubernetes to address challenges beyond its built-in capabilities.
- serverless computingkind of · Serverless computing is a cloud execution model in which a provider manages the underlying infrastructure and allocates or scales resources for application workloads.
- Knative Servinghas part · Knative Serving is a Kubernetes-based platform component for deploying, serving, routing, and autoscaling containerized serverless workloads.
- KServeused by · KServe is an open-source Kubernetes-native platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models through standardized resources and interfaces.
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