Knative

As explained in Google Anthos in Action

Knative is an open-source platform that extends Kubernetes for deploying and running cloud-native workloads, including serverless applications.

Knative extends Kubernetes into a portable platform for container-based serverless workloads. It hides scaling, traffic management, and observability complexity while allowing developers to package code and dependencies in containers and tune settings such as concurrency and instance limits. section 9.2 section 9.2.1

Knative’s deployment and operating model includes:

• Serving deploys and serves container-based workloads, supports revisions, and manages application traffic. section 9.4
• Eventing orchestrates events from different sources through channels, brokers, and optional source extensions. section 9.3.5 section 9.4
• Traffic routing uses a service-mesh gateway, with Istio, Gloo, Ambassador, Contour, and Kourier among the supported options. section 9.3
• Teams can operate Knative on virtual machines or bare metal wherever Kubernetes runs, or select a managed service to avoid managing the platform. section 9.3

Installation outline

Install Knative as a Kubernetes application using YAML files or an operator. Serving requires custom resource definitions, core components, networking, DNS, and optional extensions; Eventing adds its definitions, core components, default channel, broker, and optional sources. Observability components can follow. section 9.3.5

Figure 9.3 Knative architecture

Use the architecture diagram to trace Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, Knative components, and optional or independently operated layers. section 9.3

How Google Anthos in Action covers it

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 it assumes

Assumes Kubernetes familiarity and teaches Knative’s serverless abstractions, components, installation requirements, and deployment trade-offs.

What you can do after

Operate/configure Knative across cloud or on-premises Kubernetes environments and choose between self-managed and managed deployment.

How it connects

Connects Kubernetes, serverless computing, autoscaling, traffic management, Eventing, Serving, service meshes, revisions, and observability.

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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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