What is Knative?
Knative is an open source Kubernetes-based platform for deploying and running serverless workloads. It enables developers to focus on writing stateless, event-driven functions that can scale up and down automatically based on demand.
Some key features and benefits of Knative include:
- Simplified scale-to-zero and event driven architectures on Kubernetes
- Automatically scales workload instances up and down based on demand
- Routing and network programming for eventing and scale-to-zero
- Revision tracking for deployments, rollbacks, and traffic splitting
- Build and event sourcing primitives for creating and managing functions
- Portable between public clouds, on-prem, hybrid, and edge clusters
Knative provides building blocks for deploying modern serverless workloads on Kubernetes, removing the requirement to build complex infrastructure. This enables developers to focus on writing business logic in functions, while the platform handles the intricacies of scaling, networking, build tooling, runtime configuration, eventing etc.
Rancher, Kubernetes, Heroku, CapRover, Rancher Desktop, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, Dokku, AWS Lambda, Mesosphere DCOS, Cycle.io, Tsuru, dokku-alt are some alternatives to Knative.