# Knative

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/knative/  
**Website:** https://knative.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Knative is a CNCF graduated platform that extends Kubernetes to provide serverless capabilities. It consists of Serving for deploying and scaling serverless workloads with automatic scale-to-zero, and Eventing for building event-driven architectures with declarative event routing and delivery. Knative abstracts away infrastructure complexity so developers can focus on writing code.

## Kin Score — 46.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 81.6 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 30.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Knative Functions** — Knative Functions enables developers to create, build, and deploy stateless, event-driven functions as Knative Services using the func CLI or the kn func plugin. Functions can b...
- **Knative CLI (kn)** — The Knative CLI (kn) provides a command-line interface for creating and managing Knative resources including Services, Revisions, Routes, event sources, and Brokers. It simplifi...
- **Knative Apis API** — The Apis API from Knative — 2 operation(s) for apis.
- **Knative Brokers API** — Knative Broker resources collect pools of events that can be consumed using Triggers. Brokers provide event routing with filtering, guaranteed delivery, and dead-letter sink sup...
- **Knative Channels API** — Knative Channel resources represent a generic pub/sub messaging channel. Channels receive events and fan them out to all Subscriptions. The default channel implementation uses a...
- **Knative Configurations API** — Knative Configuration resources maintain the desired state for a deployment by capturing container templates. Each update to a Configuration creates a new immutable Revision.
- **Knative DomainMappings API** — Knative DomainMapping resources map a custom domain name to a Knative Service, enabling services to be served under custom hostnames with automatic TLS certificate provisioning.
- **Knative EventSources API** — Knative event source resources connect external event producers to the eventing mesh. Built-in sources include ApiServerSource for Kubernetes API events, PingSource for schedule...
- **Knative EventTypes API** — Knative EventType resources maintain a catalog of event types that can be consumed from Brokers. EventTypes help consumers discover what events are available without inspecting ...
- **Knative Revisions API** — Knative Revision resources are immutable snapshots of application code and configuration at a point in time. Revisions are created by Configuration updates and are the actual un...
- **Knative Routes API** — Knative Route resources manage the network endpoints and traffic distribution across Revisions. Routes support percentage-based traffic splitting for canary deployments and name...
- **Knative Subscriptions API** — Knative Subscription resources define a delivery destination for events sent to a Channel. Each Subscription routes events from a Channel to a subscriber destination with option...
- **Knative Triggers API** — Knative Trigger resources define filtered delivery options for events arriving at a Broker. A Trigger selects events by attribute filters and routes matching events to a destina...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Knative Agentic Access** — 42 operations · 20 acting

## Security (2)

- **Knative Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Knative Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Knative Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Auto-Scaling, Cloud-Native, Event-Driven, Graduated, Kubernetes, Serverless

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/knative/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.