Knative

This book explores the transformative world of serverless computing and its integration with Kubernetes using Knative. Designed for developers, architects, and platform operators, this book delves into the evolution of serverless, its core principles, and practical applications. Key Topics Covered: The principles of serverless computing and its advantages for modern applications. Essential architecture patterns, including event-driven designs and API gateways. Knative Serving and Eventing, streamlining serverless workloads and event-driven workflows. Cloud Events and how they enable interoperability. Real-world use cases and practical guidance for building scalable, cost-effective solutions. Future trends in serverless, including AI/ML, edge computing, and hybrid deployments. Whether you’re new to cloud-native development or a seasoned practitioner, Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative equips you with the knowledge to simplify application development, optimize resource use, and unleash innovation. ...

Knative focuses on three key areas - building an application, serving traffic to it, and enabling applications to easily consume and produce events. This post looks at the fundamental concepts of Knative such as Knative Serving, Knative Eventing and Knative build. It also looks at the details of service, configuration, Revision and routes which are part of Knative Serving. It looks at the details of Messaging, Channel, Subscription, sources and sinks which are part of Knative eventing.

In this post we will walk through steps to create a Knative serving instance on a local Kind cluster. We will deploy kourier as the networking layer. We will then deploy an application on this cluster and see it scaling up and down