Knative is a serverless platform that runs on Kubernetes. It simplifies the deployment and management of HTTP services and functions, with scale-to-zero: your applications consume resources only when they are called. For business leaders, Knative reduces infrastructure costs and accelerates team time-to-market.
Scale-to-zero means inactive services consume no CPU or memory. You pay only when your applications process requests. For intermittent workloads (batch, webhooks, low-traffic APIs), infrastructure costs can be significantly reduced compared to always-on servers.
Time-to-market improves because developers deploy services or functions without managing the underlying infrastructure. Knative provides simple abstractions (Serving, Eventing) that reduce complexity and speed up deliveries.
Event-driven (Knative Eventing) connects your applications to event streams (CloudEvents): messages, webhooks, business triggers. You build reactive, decoupled architectures suited to asynchronous processes and integrations.
No lock-in: Knative runs on any Kubernetes cluster, with any provider. You avoid being tied to a proprietary serverless offering (Lambda, Cloud Functions) and retain control over portability.
Reduced complexity for teams: less raw Kubernetes configuration, more conventions and automation. Developers focus on business code, not manifests and networking.
Standardization of deployments (revisions, canary, blue-green) is built-in. You ship more often, with simple rollbacks and visibility into production versions.
Dev/ops convergence: Knative integrates naturally with tools like LayerOps and CI/CD pipelines. Your teams have a consistent deployment flow, from Git branch to production.
Kiboko integrates Knative into its Platform Engineering support. We design serverless architectures on Kubernetes with you, combining Knative Serving, Eventing and LayerOps for a complete, controlled platform.
Contact us to discuss your serverless and event-driven needs.