Knative is an Open-Source Enterprise-level

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Learn about how Knative works with Kubernetes and the underlying ideas behind containers
and serverless infrastructure.

Why serverless containers?

Serverless refers to running back-end programs and processes in the cloud. Serverless works on an as-used basis, meaning that companies only use what they pay for. Knative is a platform-agnostic solution for running serverless deployments.

Simpler Abstractions

Simplify your YAML with our custom CRDs

Autoscaling

Scale down to zero and up from zero

Progressive Rollouts

Choose your rollout strategy depending on your needs

Handle events from many sources

Handle Events

Trigger handlers from the event broker

Plugable

Kubernetes native to be integrated and extended

Knative Components

Knative has two main components that empower teams working with Kubernetes. Serving and
Eventing work together to automate and manage tasks and applications.

Run serverless containers in Kubernetes with ease. Knative takes care of the details of networking, autoscaling (even to zero), and revision tracking. Teams can focus on core logic using any programming language.

Universal subscription, delivery and management of events. Build modern apps by attaching compute to a data stream with declarative event connectivity and developer friendly object models.

Trying it all together

Developers focus on code

From container to URL
with less YAML config

Scale down to zero
based on traffic patterns

Cloud agnostic

Control traffic shifting
for smoother rollouts

Case Studies

“It should be possible for somebody with an algorithm to have it on the platform in an hour”

—Andrew Webber,
Senior Software Engineer for deepc

“The community support is really great. The hands-on experience with Knative was so impressive. On the Slack channel, we got actual engineers to answer our questions”

—Tilen Kavcic,
Software Engineer for Outfit7

“I’m a strong believer in working with open-source vendors. We’ve made contributions to numerous projects, including Tekton, Knative, Ambassador, and gVisor —All of which we depend on to make our product functional.”

—Noah Fontes,
Senior Principal Software Engineer for
Puppet

Knative is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubation project

What’s Next?

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