Knative provides building blocks for modern applications

The easiest way to build and run serverless workloads on Kubernetes.
Built by the community for modern cloud-native teams

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What is Knative?

Functions

Start from a template, write your code, and build and deploy a container.

Serving

Run HTTP services with automatic scaling—including scaling to zero—and traffic routing.

Eventing

Connect event producers and consumers, publish events, and trigger applications.

Why Knative?

Less infrastructure work

Deploy a container without separately configuring deployments, services, ingress, and autoscaling. Knative manages the pieces that keep your application running.

Scale with demand

Automatically add capacity as requests arrive and scale idle services to zero, freeing resources when they are not needed.

Loosely coupled applications

Let producers publish events without knowing who consumes them. Add consumers and change event routing without rewriting producers.

Case Studies & Testimonies

"If you want to build a function-as-a-service, then you can build on top of Knative, which has a serving framework, meaning when a request comes in you can scale a workload up and down on demand."

— Kelsey Hightower

"Knative allowed the team to centralize their system, scale, audit, and even select events while enforcing policies and simplifying the architecture"

"The introduction of the ML training infrastructure using Knative Eventing has enabled us to establish a well-defined operational boundary for the service teams."

"The power of Knative’s eventing and serverless features allows PNC to bridge processes between Apache Kafka and CI/CD toolchain events and achieve this automated state."