Knative

Craig Box, Kubernetes Colorado, July 30, 2018

Knative ia a new Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads (Craig Box, Google)

• Knative Docs
• Build, deploy, manage modern serverless workloads using Knative on Kubernetes

Promise of Serverless

• No servers, idiomatic, event-driven, free of lock-in

Kubernetes is good for serverless

• Abstracts infra management pain
• Wide CSP support enables portability

Goal of Knative

• lets developers just write code

Knative

• set of primitives (build, events, serving)
• solves for modern development patterns
• implements learnings from Google and partners

Knative Build

• Containers are the lingua franca
• Source to container orchestraions
• In-cloud or on-cluster, plug in your own pipeline and builders

Knative Serving

• Principled objects describe your app
• Automatic scaling
• Great on day one, ready for day two

Knative Events

• Powerful primitives for connecting event sources to consumers
• Rich ecosystem of local, public cloud or API-based event sources

Tutorials

KubeConf 2018

• Instruqt Knative
• Knative has three components:
  1. Build
  2. Serve
  3. Eventing (management and delivery of events)

Commands

• knctl