July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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KNative
KNative (https://cloud.google.com/knative/) is a relative newcomer to the serverless functions scene, but I actually predict that it will become the mainstream go-to solution, and there are several reasons for this, such as the following:
- It is a strong solution that can scale to zero (unlike Nuclio).
- It can build images in-cluster (using Kaniko).
- It is Kubernetes-specific.
- It has the cloud of Google behind it and is available on GKE via Cloud Run (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/announcing-cloud-run-the-newest-member-of-our-serverless-compute-stack).
- It uses the Istio service mesh as a foundation, and Istio is becoming very important (more on that in Chapter 13, Service Mesh – Working with Istio).
KNative has ...