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In Part 1, I talked about Knative Serving for rapid deployment and autoscaling of serverless containers. In Part 2, I talked about how to connect services in a loosely coupled way with Knative Eventing.

In third and last part of the series, I want to talk about Knative Build and show a few examples from my Knative Tutorial.

What is Knative Build?

Knative Build basically allows you to go from source code to a container image in a registry. For example, you can write a build to obtain your source code from a repository, build a container image, push that image to a registry and then run that image, all within the Kubernetes cluster.

I’ve been looking into Knative recently. In this 3-part blog series, I want to explain my learnings and show some hands on examples from the Knative Tutorial that I published on GitHub.

What is Knative anyway?

Knative is a collection of open source building blocks for serverless containers running on Kubernetes.

At this point, you might be wondering: “Kubernetes, serverless, what’s going on?” But, when you think about it, it makes sense. Kubernetes is hugely popular container management platform. Serverless is how application developers want to run their code. Knative brings the two worlds together with a set of building blocks.