Learn KNATIVE with Real Code Examples

Deploy a serverless API endpoint

Process CloudEvents from a message queue

Scale a microservice based on HTTP traffic

Run event-driven image processing service

A/B testing with traffic splitting between revisions

Check pod status with `kubectl get pods -n knative-serving`

Validate event sources and triggers

Verify ingress configuration (Istio/Contour/Kourier)

Inspect logs with `kubectl logs`

Ensure proper RBAC permissions in cluster

Test service locally with Minikube/Kind

Use `kubectl get ksvc` to verify deployment

Simulate events to validate triggers

Monitor scaling behavior

Integration tests with HTTP calls and event sources

Deploy on Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or cloud)

Use OpenShift for enterprise deployments

Integrate with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments

Containerized microservices with Knative Serving

Event-driven serverless workloads

Kubernetes 1.20+

Kubectl CLI

Istio, Contour, or Kourier ingress

Tekton Pipelines or CI/CD tools

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali

Messaging systems: Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ

CloudEvents-compliant event sources

Container registries: Docker Hub, Quay, GCR

CI/CD pipelines: Tekton, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Cloud providers: GKE, EKS, AKS, OpenShift

Use templates for Knative manifests

Leverage cloud-native CI/CD pipelines

Monitor scaling and cold-starts

Reuse event triggers across services

Automate container builds and deployments

Understanding Kubernetes and Knative concepts

Debugging scaling issues

Handling cold-start latency

Event-driven architecture complexity

Integrating multiple cloud-native tools