Re:Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serv...
by jacques_chester on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:49PM
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> Except it bills itself as serverless. In a PaaS your apps need to have a server (e.g., http server). Serverless (e.g., FaaS or Brigade) elsewhere doesn't need this. Stuff isn't long running.
I think this comes down to the difficulties of terminology. I think of FaaS as a PaaS with some extra features (scale-to-zero being the most-noticeable). "Serverless" is a catch-all term for a variety of workloads, of which FaaS is the most visible.
> Pipelines? That doesn't appear to be in the docs. What is Pipelines?
It's a proposal[0] to evolve Concourse into being a Knative component, picking up from Build for complex workflows. I've been working on parts of this with various folks over the past few months.
I should emphasise that it is a proposal. For what you do with Knative today, use Build. It's a simple abstraction and it works right now.
I think this comes down to the difficulties of terminology. I think of FaaS as a PaaS with some extra features (scale-to-zero being the most-noticeable). "Serverless" is a catch-all term for a variety of workloads, of which FaaS is the most visible.
> Pipelines? That doesn't appear to be in the docs. What is Pipelines?
It's a proposal[0] to evolve Concourse into being a Knative component, picking up from Build for complex workflows. I've been working on parts of this with various folks over the past few months.
I should emphasise that it is a proposal. For what you do with Knative today, use Build. It's a simple abstraction and it works right now.
[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PicF7UhvSBpZLwichuY5hdhT... (to view, join the knative-dev group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/knative-dev)