Use Knative When You Can and Kubernetes When You Must - Benefits and Best Practices

Explore the advantages of Knative as an opinionated extension of Kubernetes in this 37-minute conference talk by David Hadas and Michael Maximilien from IBM. Learn how Knative can lower costs, improve security, and reduce energy consumption for deployed services. Discover the key benefits of Knative, including automation, simplification, auto-scaling, controlled revisions, and an application backbone. Understand how Knative's requirements for deployed services can benefit existing microservices and how it allows for a mix-and-match approach with Kubernetes. Examine the security benefits of Knative deployment, including protection against configuration drift and vulnerability exploitation. Gain insights into Knative's energy efficiency and its potential for making Kubernetes more environmentally friendly. The talk covers topics such as cloud computing, serverless architecture, Kubernetes basics, autoscaling, microservices, security use cases, and includes a demo and discussion of limitations.