What's The Differences Between Serverless and Knative?
There are many articles been written about serverless but they failed to provide a clear definition and differentiations between Function, Serverless and Knative. I was puzzled when I was asked the same question but not able to provide a precise answer.
So I decided to dig into this information and here they are. We will first look into what is Serverless and Function, and then dive into what’s make the Knative shines.
Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity…
Function as a service (FaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functionalities without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app. Building an application following this model is one way of achieving a “serverless” architecture, and is typically used when building microservices applications.
We all know Serverless, Function and Knative are meant to provide modern application platform for consumption based, faster start-up, lightweight, cost effective, event based, modular and etc. But how do they relates to each other and how they are different from each other. What do I need to know in order to help me to craft or choose the right solution for my organization needs.
