Knative community version

Developers of serverless applications can call the native Kubernetes API to deploy serverless applications based on Knative.

Contributors in the preceding figure mainly refer to the contributors to the Knative community.

Knative can be integrated with environments that are supported by Knative, such as environments of cloud service providers or internal environments of enterprises. Knative is based on Kubernetes. This means that Knative can be deployed in the environments where Kubernetes is implemented.

Users access services through Istio gateways, or launch serverless applications by triggering Knative events.

Tekton is used to retrieve source code from the code repository, compile the code into images, and push the images to the image repository. All these operations are performed in Kubernetes pods.

Knative Eventing has designed an all-in-one eventing system for event-driven serverless applications. The eventing system provides features such as the installation of external event sources, registration and subscription of events, and filtering of events. The event system decouples event producers and event consumers. An event producer can generate events before active event consumers listen to events. An event consumer can listen to events before active producers produce events.

Knative Serving is used to manage the workloads of serverless applications that provide services to users. The most important feature of Knative Serving is automatic scaling. The scaling capacity is not limited. Knative Serving also supports phased release.