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Serverless backend for SaaS

Event-driven platforms

Microservices with pay-per-use scaling

Cloud-native enterprise applications

Integration services in multi-cloud environments

Expanded event source integrations

Improved autoscaling algorithms

Enhanced observability and debugging tools

Better multi-cluster and hybrid cloud support

Continued alignment with CNCF serverless standards

Teams without Kubernetes knowledge

Small apps not needing autoscaling or serverless features

Projects requiring simple deployments outside Kubernetes

Legacy monolithic apps with stateful components

Low-latency workloads where cold start is unacceptable

Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless and event-driven applications.

Supports autoscaling, including scale-to-zero, and traffic splitting.

Integrates with cloud-native tools, CI/CD, and messaging systems.

Ideal for microservices and serverless workloads.

Extensible and fully open-source under CNCF governance.

Is Knative free?

Yes - open-source under Apache License 2.0

Does Knative require Kubernetes?

Yes - it is built on Kubernetes

Can Knative scale to zero?

Yes - services can scale down to zero when idle

Does Knative support event-driven apps?

Yes - via Eventing and CloudEvents

How does Knative compare to Lambda?

Knative is self-hosted serverless on Kubernetes; Lambda is managed serverless on AWS