What is Knative?

TL;DR Knative is a cloud-native serverless framework for Kubernetes environments. It is created and open-sourced by Google with contributions from other companies (Pivotal, IBM, Lyft, etc.). Unlike current serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, …), Knative eliminates cloud vendor lock-in. Knative usese Kubernetes for container orchestration and Istio service mesh for routing, load balancing, etc. Knative has three components: Build, Serving, and Eventing. Build: builds containers from source code on Kubernetes (on-cluster container builds)....

Jun 8, 2019 · 1 min · Milad Irannejad