Container Compute Service:Comparison between Alibaba Cloud Knative and open source Knative

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Alibaba Cloud Knative

Open source Knative

References (Alibaba Cloud Knative)

Cost of platform development and maintenance

• Supports one-click deployment as a service.

• The Knative control plane component is fully managed and O&M-free.

You need to purchase resources to develop a platform, and platform upgrades and maintenance require manpower.

Knative overview

Ease of use

Provides rich features and an easy-to-use comprehensive monitoring system.

You need to manually develop and maintain the components in your monitoring system. This requires technical expertise.

View the Knative dashboard

Elasticity

Supports the following scaling features:

• Knative Pod Autoscaling (KPA)

• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

• Reserved resource pools

• AHPA (Elastic Prediction)

Supports KPA and HPA.

• Use HPA in Knative

• Enable automatic scaling for pods based on the number of requests

• Implement scheduled auto scaling based on AHPA

Gateway capabilities

Compatible with open source gateways, such as Kourier. It also supports cloud product gateways, such as Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM).

Supports only open source Ingresses, such as Kourier and Istio. You need to manually maintain these Ingresses.

• Use ALB Ingresses

• Use ASM Ingresses

• Use Kourier Ingresses

Event-driven

Supports integration with EventBridge.

Supports integration only with open source Knative Eventing.

Use the event-driven capabilities of EventBridge in Knative

CI/CD

Supports integration with Apsara DevOps Flow.

You need to manually develop a CI/CD platform.

None

Monitoring and alerting

Supports a variety of metrics, including the QPS, response time, and service success rate metrics, and lets you create custom alert rules and send alerts through DingTalk messages, phone calls, or text messages.

Supports only basic metrics. You need to manually develop an alerting system.

View the Knative dashboard

Integration with Alibaba Cloud services

Supports integration with ACS, Container Registry, Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS), and Simple Log Service to provide one-stop experience.

Does not support integration with Alibaba Cloud services.