"Knative Eventing for Cloud-Native Developers"
"Knative Eventing for Cloud-Native Developers" is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to architecting, deploying, and operating event-driven applications in modern Kubernetes environments. Beginning with the evolution and principles of event-driven architectures, the book meticulously explores the foundational concepts of Knative Eventing, its architectural components, and aligns them with proven cloud-native and microservices patterns. Readers are provided with a strong theoretical grounding, including a detailed review of the CloudEvents specification, event lifecycles, and practical taxonomy relevant to scalable distributed systems.
Designed with practitioners in mind, this book navigates the full lifecycle of Knative Eventing—covering cluster prerequisites, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and advanced deployment strategies. Developers and platform engineers will find robust guidance on integrating event sources, customizing channels and sinks, and orchestrating complex event flows using brokers and triggers. Real-world patterns for event transformation, delivery semantics, high-availability design, and multi-broker architectures are illustrated through hands-on examples and best practices, empowering readers to build reliable, secure, and adaptable event-driven systems.
The volume goes beyond implementation, addressing critical concerns in observability, security, performance, and compliance. Readers will discover strategies for metrics collection, distributed tracing, policy enforcement, autoscaling, and disaster recovery. With in-depth chapters on developing modular event handlers, testing event-driven workloads, integrating external systems, and leveraging Knative in emerging AI, edge, and hybrid-cloud environments, "Knative Eventing for Cloud-Native Developers" stands as an indispensable resource for cloud engineers and developers seeking to master eventing in the cloud-native era.
