Knative Serving

Interested in knowing what Knative is and how it simplifies Kubernetes?

Knative is a general-purpose serverless orchestration framework that sits on top of Kubernetes, allowing you to create event-driven, autoscaled, and scale-to-zero applications. 

This lesson introduces you to Knative, taking you through the fundamentals, particularly the components Serving and Eventing. Several hands-on demonstrations are provided in which you'll learn and observe how to install Knative, and how to build and deploy serverless event-driven scale-to-zero workloads.

Knative runs on top of Kubernetes, and therefore you’ll need to have some existing knowledge and/or experience with Kubernetes. If you’re completely new to Kubernetes, please consider taking our dedicated Introduction to Kubernetes course.

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Learning Objectives

By completing this lesson, you will: 

• Learn about what Knative is and how to install, configure, and maintain it
• Learn about Knative Serving and Eventing components
• Learn how to deploy serverless event-driven workloads
• And finally, you’ll learn how to work with and configure many of the key Knative cluster resources

Intended Audience

• Anyone interested in learning about Knative and its fundamentals
• Software Engineers interested in learning about how to configure and deploy Knative serverless workloads into a Kubernetes cluster
• DevOps and SRE practitioners interested in understanding how to install, manage and maintain KNative infrastructure

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites will be both useful and helpful for this lesson:

• A basic understanding of Kubernetes
• A basic understanding of containers, containerization, and serverless based architectures
• A basic understanding of software development and the software development life cycle
• A basic understanding of networks and networking

Resources

The knative-demo GitHub repository used within this lesson can be found here:

https://github.com/cloudacademy/knative-demo