This guide explains how to combine AgentScope with Knative to efficiently develop, build, and deploy AI agents using serverless containers, covering key features, pain‑point solutions, installation steps, code examples, deployment commands, and post‑deployment observations.
This article explains how the cloud‑native Knative serverless framework reduces GPU waste, enables request‑driven autoscaling to zero, accelerates AI model versioning and startup with Fluid, and integrates protocols like MCP and A2A to deliver cost‑effective, high‑performance AI inference services.
This guide explains how to deploy the DeepSeek‑R1 large language model on a Knative platform using an A10 GPU, covering preparation, service creation with appropriate annotations, YAML configuration, verification via curl, custom domain setup, and optional personal AI assistant deployment.
This article explains how to reduce inference cost and improve performance for large language models on Alibaba Cloud ACK by using Knative's request‑based autoscaling, custom ResourcePolicy priority scheduling, and Fluid data‑caching to achieve elastic scaling, resource pre‑emption, and faster model loading.
The 5th China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Developer Conference in Beijing highlighted cutting‑edge AI inference optimization, Knative‑based serverless acceleration, AMD PMU virtualization, and CDI‑driven GPU management, offering detailed technical insights and real‑world case studies that illustrate how cloud providers are tackling performance and cost challenges of modern workloads.
This article introduces Knative Eventing concepts and core components, then demonstrates three practical usage patterns—Source‑to‑Sink, Channel and Subscription, and Broker and Trigger—through step‑by‑step examples, Kubernetes manifests, and command‑line operations, highlighting event flow, filtering, and reply handling.
This guide explains how to efficiently deploy AI model inference services on Knative by externalizing model data, using Fluid for accelerated loading, configuring secrets, ImageCache, graceful shutdown, probes, autoscaling parameters, mixed ECS/ECI resources, shared GPU scheduling, and observability features to achieve fast scaling, low cost, and high elasticity.
Learn how to integrate Alibaba Cloud's low‑cost spot (preemptible) instances with Knative serverless workloads, configure pod annotations, handle automatic replacement, monitor eviction events, and apply best‑practice YAML settings to achieve cost‑effective, resilient deployments on a cloud‑native platform.
This guide explains how to design and implement a unified cloud‑native serverless platform that runs seamlessly on public clouds and on‑premise IDC clusters using Alibaba Cloud ACK One, Kubernetes, and Knative, covering architecture, key components, deployment steps, and best‑practice recommendations.
This article explains how Knative leverages request‑driven traffic management to simplify blue‑green releases, configure multi‑gateway ingress, apply revision garbage‑collection policies, enable custom domains, support multiple protocols, and provide automatic scaling and observability through Prometheus and Grafana.
This article explains how Shuhe Tech combined Knative with AI workloads to achieve 60% resource cost savings and reduce model deployment cycles from one day to half a day, detailing Knative's architecture, request‑based autoscaling, multi‑version releases, and advanced scaling features.
This article explains how Knative implements request‑based autoscaling with KPA, details the scale‑to‑zero mechanism, shows how to handle burst traffic using stable and panic windows, and demonstrates advanced extensions such as resource pools, precise MPA scaling, and predictive AHPA configurations with concrete YAML examples.
This article explains how Shuhe Technology leveraged Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) and Knative to deploy, scale, and monitor over 500 AI model services—including Stable Diffusion—achieving 60% cost savings, zero‑to‑scale elasticity, and rapid deployment cycles.
The article analyzes the operational, stability, and cost challenges of Haro’s AI platform, explains why a serverless FaaS architecture—specifically Knative—was selected, and details the implementation steps, performance gains, and future scenarios for AI workloads.
NetEase Cloud Music transitioned from public FaaS to a private Knative‑based serverless platform, delivering elastic audio‑video processing, multi‑language support, event‑driven scaling across hybrid private and public clouds, boosting resource utilization and cutting costs, though cold‑starts and container expertise remain challenges.
This case study explains how PNC Bank, one of the largest U.S. banks, used cloud‑native technologies such as Knative, Kubernetes, and TriggerMesh to replace a 30‑day manual compliance process with an automated Policy‑as‑Code system, dramatically shortening deployment cycles and enabling continuous delivery.
Shuhe Technology leveraged Alibaba Cloud Container Service with Knative and ECI virtual nodes to achieve auto‑scaling, multi‑version management, and up to 60% cost reduction for AI model services, dramatically improving resource efficiency and stability under burst traffic.
Knative is a CNCF‑incubated, cloud‑native serverless framework on Kubernetes that combines Build, Eventing, and Serving components—featuring a Knative Pod Autoscaler that can scale pods to zero—offering improved resource utilization, rapid traffic response, and developer productivity despite modest performance overhead.
This article explores the evolution of modern distributed applications, outlining the core primitives required for lifecycle, networking, resource binding, and state management, and examines how Kubernetes, microservices, service meshes, Knative, Dapr, and emerging trends reshape cloud‑native architectures.
This tutorial introduces Knative, explains its architecture and core components, and provides a detailed, image‑rich walkthrough for deploying Knative on Alibaba Cloud, testing a sample serverless application, and managing the cluster via CloudShell.
This article explains how to create a non‑intrusive Kubernetes admission webhook that injects custom volumes and volume mounts into Knative pods, covering the underlying admission control concepts, Go implementation, TLS setup, deployment manifests, and verification steps.
This article explains the principles behind Knative Autoscaler, compares Knative Pod Autoscaler (KPA) with Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), and provides step‑by‑step configuration and demo instructions for achieving true serverless scaling on Kubernetes.
This article reviews the current state of Kubernetes horizontal and vertical autoscaling, compares HPA, VPA, and KNative KPA, discusses their limitations, and proposes short‑ and long‑term ideas for a more dynamic, low‑ops scheduling system.
The article examines Kuaishou Y‑tech's server‑side effects platform, detailing its background, technical challenges, exploration of open‑source workflow and serverless frameworks, architectural adjustments for non‑blocking APIs, and future development directions while highlighting recruitment opportunities.
This article explains the motivations behind Serverless, defines its core concepts such as FaaS and BaaS, outlines key characteristics like one‑step deployment, auto‑scaling and event‑driven execution, discusses suitable use cases, current challenges, and introduces Knative as a cloud‑native implementation.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Knative Eventing's Broker and Trigger model, detailing background concepts, event routing patterns, data‑plane and control‑plane workflows, and includes practical YAML and command‑line examples for deploying and managing the components in a Kubernetes environment.
This article introduces Knative, the open‑source serverless framework built on Kubernetes, explains its core Serving and Eventing components, details Alibaba Cloud’s deep integration and enhanced capabilities such as traffic management, auto‑scaling policies, and provides a step‑by‑step example of a real‑time bullet‑screen application.
This article explores Knative’s traffic routing and autoscaling mechanisms, detailing how requests are initially directed through the Activator during cold‑start, how VirtualService configurations evolve, and how newer versions shift traffic handling to Kubernetes Service/Endpoint layers, improving performance and decoupling gateway logic.
This article explains Knative’s traffic‑driven autoscaling and gray‑release capabilities, detailing the request flow architecture, the roles of Service, Configuration, Route and Revision, and walks through built‑in scaling strategies such as KPA, HPA, scheduled‑HPA, event‑gateway and custom plugins, with practical examples.
This article explains why Knative is needed to simplify Kubernetes‑based serverless workloads, describes its core modules and traffic‑based gray release capabilities, and shows how Alibaba Cloud's ASK platform integrates with Knative to reduce operational complexity, improve elasticity, and lower costs.
This article explores the evolution of microservices, the challenges they introduce, and how Knative’s Cloud‑Native serverless framework—through its Build, Serving, and Eventing modules—can be leveraged to create a low‑code, production‑grade workflow platform that simplifies complex business logic while reducing development overhead.
The article describes how the team built a production‑grade serverless workflow platform on Knative by creating four modules—a dashboard, API, operator, and syncer—that generate Kubernetes resources, automate CI/CD, monitor via Prometheus, and aim to cut boilerplate while supporting future extensions such as richer constructs, multi‑language support, and synchronous invocations.
This article explains Knative Eventing fundamentals, walks through a Hello‑World event pipeline using GCP Pub/Sub, shows the required YAML definitions and kubectl commands, and demonstrates how to connect Cloud Storage events to a Vision API service for image analysis.
This article introduces Knative as a Kubernetes‑based serverless platform, explains its three core components, walks through deploying a Hello World service with YAML and kubectl commands, shows how configuration changes create revisions, demonstrates traffic splitting, and illustrates integration with external services such as Twilio.
This article explains how to transform a traditional Kubernetes Operator into a server‑less one by leveraging Knative Eventing and Knative Serving, showing the architectural changes, code modifications, and the remaining limitations of the approach.
Knative Serving, built on Kubernetes and Istio, provides middleware primitives for rapid serverless container deployment, automatic scaling to zero, Istio‑based routing, and snapshotting of code and configuration, with key custom resources such as Service, Route, Configuration, and Revision to manage lifecycle and traffic.
This article explains the fundamentals of Serverless computing, compares FaaS and BaaS offerings, examines the limitations of cloud functions, and details how Tencent CloudBase leverages Knative to deliver Serverless cloud applications, covering serving, building, ecosystem integration, and the emerging CaaS model.
This article explains the fundamentals of Serverless, compares FaaS and BaaS, outlines its advantages and drawbacks, showcases typical use cases, and details Didi's terminal team's real‑world implementation using KNative on Kubernetes.
This article explains how to combine RocketMQ with Knative to create cloud‑native, event‑driven serverless applications, covering cloud‑native fundamentals, Knative architecture, RocketMQSource integration, a food‑delivery use case, deployment steps, command‑line examples, and additional scenarios.
This roundup highlights recent cloud‑native developments, including the donation of Istio to an open‑source foundation, Kotlin gRPC becoming open source, dynamic watch‑cache sizing and authentication tweaks in Kubernetes, Knative 0.14 release details, xDS v3 planning, plus curated open‑source project and reading recommendations.
Jenkins X introduces serverless Jenkins, leveraging Prow and Knative on Kubernetes to provide a cloud‑native, highly available CI/CD solution that eliminates single‑point failures, reduces costs, and integrates GitOps, while offering migration guidance, FAQs, and practical Terraform commands for deployment.
This article explains Knative Eventing architecture, demonstrates a Hello World event pipeline using GCP Pub/Sub, and shows how to integrate Cloud Storage events with Google Vision API through Knative services, providing full YAML definitions and command‑line steps.
The article summarizes Kubernetes v1.17’s 22 enhancements—including GA cloud‑provider labels, beta VolumeSnapshot, CSI storage migration, numerous feature stabilizations, dual‑stack networking, Knative updates, and curated open‑source and reading recommendations—providing a detailed technical overview for practitioners.
This article explains the motivations behind cloud native computing, introduces Knative’s three core modules—Tekton, Eventing, and Serving—and shows how they enable serverless capabilities, traffic management, gray‑release, and elasticity for modern applications, illustrated with a practical demo and Q&A.
This guide walks you through adding a custom domain in Alibaba Cloud Knative and setting up service routing based on URL paths and HTTP headers, showing step‑by‑step console actions, verification URLs, and how to troubleshoot header‑based routing.
This tutorial explains how to create an Alibaba Cloud Kafka instance, configure topics and consumer groups, deploy the Knative Kafka addon, define a Knative Service and KafkaSource, and verify message delivery using CloudEvents, enabling serverless event‑driven applications.
This article walks you through deploying a WebSocket chat service and a gRPC ping service on Knative, covering repository cloning, Docker image preparation, Knative Service YAML configuration, kubectl deployment commands, and browser‑based verification to ensure the services run correctly in a serverless environment.
This guide shows how to bind an Istio gateway to an internal SLB, create a Knative service, and configure Alibaba Cloud API Gateway with VPC authorization, constant parameters, and authentication to securely publish a production‑grade Knative service.
This article walks through the fundamentals of Golang Context, explains how Knative Serving SDK leverages Context for informer and client initialization, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for building serverless applications, including logging, reconciler implementation, and practical deployment tips.
This guide explains how Knative Eventing's Sequence CRD enables multi‑step event pipelines, walks through its spec definition, and demonstrates four practical usage patterns—direct service calls, event‑driven processing, cascading sequences, and Broker/Trigger integration—complete with YAML examples and visual diagrams.
This weekly roundup highlights the CNCF security audit of Kubernetes and related projects, the archiving of rkt, several Kubernetes enhancements such as readonly interfaces and ephemeral containers, Istio's HTTP/2 DDoS fix, Knative v0.8.0 features, the krew plugin manager, Alluxio, and curated reading on microservices, ARM containers, WebAssembly, Helm charts, and a cloud‑native transformation case study.
This guide explains how to replace Knative Serving's default example.com domain with your own custom master domain, configure wildcard DNS, create Istio VirtualService rules for friendly service URLs, and set up path‑based routing to multiple services in a production‑ready manner.
This week’s cloud‑native roundup covers Mesosphere’s rebranding to D2iQ, two critical Kubernetes CVEs with remediation steps, upcoming CNCF Kubernetes summits, the Knative 0.8 release, curated open‑source project recommendations, and a selection of in‑depth reading on multi‑cluster, serverless, and API‑gateway technologies.
This week’s cloud‑native roundup covers Alibaba Cloud Container Service’s top Forrester ranking, the first production‑ready 1.0 release of Virtual Kubelet, key Kubernetes design proposals, Knative event‑type namespace discussions, Istio multi‑cluster enhancements, and several noteworthy open‑source projects.
This week’s roundup covers Kubernetes 1.16 API deprecations, new managed Prometheus services from Azure and Alibaba Cloud, upcoming KEP enhancements, Knative serving updates, the Kopf operator framework, curated reading links, and a CNCF‑Alibaba cloud‑native course on networking and policies.
This guide walks through building a Go REST‑API, containerizing it, deploying multiple Knative Service revisions, configuring traffic percentages for gray releases, validating revisions before traffic shift, and rolling back, while comparing Knative’s traffic‑driven model to traditional pod‑based deployments.
This guide walks you through deploying a Knative Service on Alibaba Cloud Container Service, configuring logging and monitoring with Log Service, setting up alerting, and enabling distributed tracing, providing step‑by‑step commands, YAML examples, and console screenshots for a production‑grade serverless setup.
This article explains the core concepts of Knative Build, outlines its most important features, and provides detailed YAML examples for steps, templates, sources, service accounts, volumes, and timeout configuration, helping developers create native Kubernetes pipelines without pre‑provisioned build environments.
This tutorial walks through setting up Knative Eventing to capture Kubernetes events, covering the Broker/Trigger model, required prerequisites, creating service accounts, defining an ApiServerSource, deploying a simple event‑display service, configuring a Broker and Trigger, and verifying event delivery.
This guide walks you through creating a Kubernetes cluster on Alibaba Cloud, installing Istio and Knative components, deploying a Go Hello World service, and using scripts and load‑testing tools to observe Knative’s zero‑scale‑to‑one and automatic scaling behavior.
