Knative on IBM Cloud

Bringing serverless workloads to Kubernetes

Knative, one of the newest and fastest growing open-source projects in the cloud-native landscape, extends Kubernetes with serverless capabilities and a simplified developer experience. It leverages the features of Kubernetes, but hides its complexities.

IBM, a founder and contributor to Knative, recently announced managed Knative support for the IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service offering, a managed add-on that integrates Knative and Istio into the cluster with one-click installation through the user interface (UI).

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Benefits of managed Knative on IBM Cloud

Deploy natively to Kubernetes

Knative is built with the same patterns — controllers, API — kube-api, and infrastructure as Kubernetes. Install with one click.

Focus on the code

Knative removes the underlying details and complexities of building, deploying and managing an application.

Gain flexibility and control

Adopt open source-first technologies to run your workloads anywhere, on any cloud and on any Kubernetes-supported infrastructure.

How it works

A unified container-application platform

Knative delivers an essential set of components, or primitives, that build on top of Kubernetes. The platform abstracts the complex details of combining different application types: 12-factor applications, containers and functions.

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Knative components

Two key primitives help you develop and manage the serverless applications in your Kubernetes cluster

Serving

Serving provides scale-to-zero, request-driven compute functions — execution and scaling.

Eventing

Eventing provides delivery and subscription mechanisms to build event-driven applications.

One-click integrations

Extend the capabilities of Kubernetes in minutes

Tekton

An open, Kubernetes-native framework for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/C), Tekton enables developers to deliver cloud-native applications across clouds or on premises.

Istio

Istio is an open service mesh platform to connect, secure, control, and observe microservices on cloud platforms such as Kubernetes in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.

Knative resources

Power of Knative and Istio

Learn how Knative and Istio, when combined, have altered how application developers use and view Kubernetes.

Install Knative and Istio

Learn how to install Knative with Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and deploy an application.

Get to know Knative

Learn some exercises that are designed to help you understand Knative.

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View the documentation

Learn about the managed Istio add-on to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.