Knative in Action

1 Introduction

This chapter covers

• What Knative is and why you should use it
• The places where Knative shines (and doesn’t)
• The basics of Serving and Eventing
• Where to get started

One of my north stars is the Onsi Haiku Test:

Here is my source code.
Run it on the cloud for me.
I do not care how.

This is actually a radical notion of how software can best be developed, deployed, upgraded, observed, managed, and improved. It must be, because so often it emerges long after we’ve tried everything else first. The Onsi Haiku Test implies

• That a fast, reliable path to production is a shared goal for everyone

• That there is a crisp, contractual boundary between folks who provide platforms and folks whose work will consume the platform

• That ...