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.Project Insights
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Health Score
Excellent (85)
Health Score measures a project’s overall trustworthiness across four key areas: contributors, development, popularity, and security.
Total contributors
1,421
-8% vs. previous year
Total contributing organizations
466
+2% vs. previous year
GitHub Stars
1,023
-5% vs. previous year
GitHub Forks
308
+18% vs. previous year
Software Value
$748.4M
First commit
January 26, 2018
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CNCF On demand webinar: Level up your GitHub repo config game
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CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Reusability and its impact on DevOps
Presented by: Ozone
CNCF Live Webinar: From Pipelines to Supply Chains: Level up with Supply Chain Choreography
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