Go Serverless on Kubernetes With Knative

How Knative is the best of both worlds

If you’re already using Kubernetes, you’ve probably heard about serverless. While both platforms are scalable, serverless goes the extra mile by providing developers with running code without worrying about infrastructure and saves on infra costs by virtually scaling your application instances from zero.

Kubernetes, on the other hand, provides its advantages with zero limitations, following a traditional hosting model and advanced traffic management techniques that help you do things — like blue-green deployments and A/B testing.

Knative is an attempt to create the best of the two worlds. As an open-source cloud-native platform, it enables you to run your serverless workloads on Kubernetes, providing all Kubernetes capabilities, plus the simplicity and flexibility of serverless.

So while your developers can focus on writing code and deploying the container to Kubernetes with a single command, Knative can manage the application by taking care of the networking details, the autoscaling to zero, and the revision tracking.

It also takes care of allowing developers to write loosely coupled code with its eventing framework that provides the universal subscription, delivery, and management of events. That means you…