Introducing Knative to Small Teams

Knative is a powerful and small serverless platform you can install into any Kubernetes cluster to allow developers to build, deploy, scale up and down, and even consume/publish events.

https://starkandwayne.com/blog/introduction-to-knative/

Other links mentioned in slide deck:

https://cloud.google.com/knative/
https://github.com/cppforlife/knctl
https://github.com/cppforlife/kwt
https://github.com/starkandwayne/knative-env
https://github.com/drnic/ruby-meetup-2018-11-27

Transcript

1. Title Text Body Level One Body Level Two Body Level Three Body Level Four Body Level Five Introducing Knative to Small Teams Dr Nic Williams @drnic
2. Knative @drnic Build
 Source code to Docker ɑ Serving
 Run containers; Route traffic Eventing
 Publish & subscribe to events Kubernetes
 Containers on any cloud
3. https://starkandwayne.com/blog/introduction-to-knative/
4. knctl deploy -s meetup --image drnic/meetup:v1 Serving
 Run containers; Route traffic myblog.com/first-post Routing 3+ Pods https://starkandwayne.com/blog/deploying-12factor-apps-to-knative/ ɂ
5. Autoscaling
 No traffic, no containers __ https://starkandwayne.com/blog/deploying-12factor-apps-to-knative/ myblog.com/post Routing 3 Pods ɂ <no traffic> Routing 0 Pods ɂ
6. knctl deploy -s meetup --image drnic/meetup:v1 Serving
 Revisions have separate routing knctl deploy -s meetup --image drnic/meetup:v2 myblog.com/post Routing v2 - 3 Pods ɂ v1 - 0 Pods
7. knctl deploy -s meetup --image drnic/meetup:v2 \ --env TARGET="revision 3" Serving
 Revisions have separate routing myblog.com/post Routing v3 - 3 Pods ɂ v1 - 0 Pods v2 - 0 Pods
8. Serving
 Rollout new revisions gradually $ knctl revisions list Service Name Tags Conditions Age Traffic meetup meetup-00003 latest 4 OK / 4 48s 100% -> meetup.default.example.com ~ meetup-00002 previous 4 OK / 4 1m - ~ meetup-00001 - 4 OK / 4 10m - $ knctl deploy -s meetup --image drnic/meetup:v2 --env TARGET="revision 4" \ --managed-route=false $ knctl rollout --route meetup -p meetup:previous=50% -p meetup:latest=50% $ knctl revisions list Service Name Tags Conditions Age Traffic meetup meetup-00004 latest 4 OK / 4 4m 50% -> meetup.default.example.com ~ meetup-00003 previous 4 OK / 4 6m 50% -> meetup.default.example.com
9. Local traffic
 kwt is your friend $ sudo -E kwt net start --dns-map-exec='knctl dns-map' $ curl meetup.default.example.com $ watch -n1 curl -sS meetup.default.example.com https://github.com/cppforlife/kwt
10. Build & Serving
 Deploy from Dockerfile git clone https://github.com/cppforlife/simple-app cd simple-app cat Dockerfile knctl deploy \ --service simple-app \ --directory . \ --service-account build \ --image drnic/simple-app \ --env SIMPLE_MSG="Hello Ruby people"
11. Build & Serving
 Deploy from Buildpack git clone https://github.com/starkandwayne/knative-env cd knative-env knctl deploy -d . \ --service knative-env \ --service-account build \ --template buildpack \ --image drnic/knative-env
12. Installation
 Knative on Kubernetes kubectl version knctl install Ingress
 DNS to ingress gateway https://starkandwayne.com/blog/public-traffic-into-knative-on-gke/ https://starkandwayne.com/blog/adding-a-custom-domain-for-knative-services/
13. Knative @drnic Build
 Source code to Docker ɑ Serving
 Run containers; Route traffic Eventing
 Publish & subscribe to events
14. https://starkandwayne.com/blog/introduction-to-knative/ https://github.com/cppforlife/knctl https://github.com/cppforlife/kwt https://cloud.google.com/knative/ https://github.com/starkandwayne/knative-env https://github.com/drnic/ruby-meetup-2018-11-27