"Knative Serving in Practice"
"Knative Serving in Practice" is a comprehensive guide for cloud-native engineers, architects, and platform operators seeking to unlock the full potential of serverless workloads on Kubernetes with Knative Serving. The book meticulously unpacks the foundational architecture, including detailed explanations of custom resources, controller patterns, autoscaling mechanisms, and networking abstractions that power seamless deployment and scaling of containerized services. Through clear, expert-driven chapters, it clarifies Knative’s place in the broader CNCF and Kubernetes ecosystem, making it invaluable for those both new to the technology and experienced practitioners refining enterprise-scale deployments.
Practical deployment strategies take center stage, guiding the reader through real-world installation approaches, resource management, network configuration, and operational best practices such as multi-tenancy, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime upgrades. The book’s hands-on orientation extends to CI/CD integration, advanced traffic management, and sophisticated rollout patterns like blue-green deployments, canaries, and feature flags. In-depth sections demystify concurrency models, predictive autoscaling, and performance diagnostics, offering proven solutions to minimize cold starts and optimize reliability at scale.
Security, observability, and organizational scalability are expertly addressed, with dedicated chapters on authentication, RBAC, secret management, compliance, and forensics. The exploration of platform engineering patterns—including custom control plane extensions, multi-cluster operations, and hybrid cloud strategies—is further enriched by real-world case studies from enterprise, SaaS, ML, and edge computing environments. "Knative Serving in Practice" is both a definitive technical reference and a pragmatic field manual, empowering readers to deliver resilient, portable, and production-grade cloud applications with Knative.
