Knative for developers

Greg Haynes IBM

 Topics
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High level overview / resources
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Knative serving
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Demo

Greg Haynes IBM

 “(Knative) provides the building blocks for
serverless platforms to run on top of
Kubernetes.”

Source: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-cloud-google-knative-serverless/
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 “(Knative) provides the building blocks for
serverless platforms to run on top of
Kubernetes.”

Source: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-cloud-google-knative-serverless/
Greg Haynes IBM
 “(Knative) provides the building blocks for
serverless platforms to run on top of
Kubernetes.”

It’s a toolkit / framework

Source: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-cloud-google-knative-serverless/
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 “(Knative) provides the building blocks for
serverless platforms to run on top of
Kubernetes.”

‘Blocks’ are a K8s CRD + Operator (Controller)

Source: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2018/07/24/ibm-cloud-google-knative-serverless/
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 K8s Resources

Pod Pod

Node Node

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 K8s Resources

...

Deployment

Pod Pod

Node Node

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 Knative Resources
Service Build Feed ...

K8s Resources ...

Deployment

Pod Pod

Node Node

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 Knative Resources
Build
Build
Build Template

Auto- Config
scaler Bus Channel Flow

Revision Route Service Cluster

Subscr. Bus Feed

Event Event
Src Type
Serving Eventing
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 Why Resources?
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As a user the internal blocks are exposed in a familiar way
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As a operator the blocks can be integrated / plugged out
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As a contributor there is a clear mechanism for loose coupling

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 Knative Serving

Greg Haynes Source: https://github.com/knative/docs/tree/master/serving IBM

 Knative Serving
1. configuration:
revisionTemplate:
spec:
container:
image: {image}

Greg Haynes Source: https://github.com/knative/docs/tree/master/serving IBM

 Knative Serving
1. configuration:
revisionTemplate:
spec:
container:
image: {image}
2.
Config controller
Creates a revision

Greg Haynes Source: https://github.com/knative/docs/tree/master/serving IBM

 Knative Serving
1. configuration:
revisionTemplate:
spec:
container:
image: {image}
2.
Config controller
3. Creates a revision
traffic:
- configurationName: {config}
percent: 100

Greg Haynes Source: https://github.com/knative/docs/tree/master/serving IBM

 Knative Serving
Complete routed app
apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: helloworld
spec:
runLatest:
configuration:
revisionTemplate:
spec:
container:
image: {image}

Greg Haynes Source: https://github.com/knative/docs/tree/master/serving IBM

 Scaling up/down
Istio
Route Revision

Deployment Resize Autoscaler

Activate

Stats
Activator queue-proxy
My
Service

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Demo