Knative is a developer-focused serverless application layer which is a great complement to the existing Kubernetes application constructs. Knative consists of three components: an HTTP-triggered autoscaling container runtime called “Knative Serving”, a CloudEvents-over-HTTP asynchronous routing layer called “Knative Eventing”, and a developer-focused function framework which leverages the Serving and Eventing components, called "Knative Functions".
Knative was accepted to CNCF on March 2, 2022 at the
Incubating maturity level and then moved to the
Graduated maturity level on September 11, 2025.
