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# Episode 1: Knative

## Episode 1: Knative

**Vendor-Neutral Serverless on Kubernetes**

The first episode of the CNCF Project Focus series examines Knative as a serverless substrate: scale-to-zero economics, the split between Serving and Eventing and the governance challenge of running ephemeral workloads in a regulated environment.

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### 📎Visual companion

[CNCF Project Focus #1: Knative carousel (PDF)](https://github.com/christian-dussol-cloud-native/knative/blob/main/carousel/CNCF%20Project%20Focus%20%231%20-%20Knative.pdf)

### What the episode covers

* The Knative architecture and why it is not just "another FaaS"
* Scale-to-zero as a FinOps lever and the cold-start trade-off
* Kyverno policies to enforce responsible serverless usage
* When Knative is the right answer and when it is not

### Read the deep-dive

* **Medium article**: [Knative: stop paying for idle Kubernetes pods](https://medium.com/@christian.dussol/knative-stop-paying-for-idle-kubernetes-pods-ac5e6ec350fa)
* **GitHub lab**: [github.com/christian-dussol-cloud-native/knative](https://github.com/christian-dussol-cloud-native/knative)