Knative brings the Cloud Run experience to any Kubernetes cluster: request-driven scale-to-zero via the Knative Pod Autoscaler, revision-based traffic splitting for blue-green and canary deployments, and a full CloudEvents-native eventing layer with brokers and triggers. This post covers the architecture in depth, the data path through the activator during cold start, and an honest comparison with KEDA and plain HPA — including when Knative's operational weight makes it the wrong choice.
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Knative: Serverless on Your Own Cluster