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Getting Started with Knative

Gloo Edge Knative Ingress is deprecated in 1.10 and will not be available in 1.11

For the purpose of running Knative, Gloo Edge can function as a complete replacement for Istio (supporting all documented Knative features), requiring less resource usage and operational overhead.

This guide walks you through running a serverless app with Knative, using Gloo Edge as your ingress.

It assumes you’ve already followed the installation guide for Gloo Edge and Knative.

Before you start

Gloo Edge supports the features and tutorials that can be found in the Knative documentation.

When following tutorials in the Knative documentation, please note that you’ll need to use the address of the knative-external-proxy service in gloo-system for requests to knative services rather than the knative-ingressgateway in istio-system, which is the default assumed by those tutorials.

To get the URL of the Gloo Edge Knative gateway, run glooctl proxy url --name knative-external-proxy

What you’ll need

kubectl
Kubernetes v1.14+ deployed somewhere. Minikube is a great way to get a cluster up quickly.
Docker installed and running on your local machine, and a Docker Hub account configured (we’ll use it for a container registry).

Steps

First, ensure Knative is installed with Gloo Edge.

Next, create a Knative Service

For this demo, a simple helloworld application written in go will be used. Copy the YAML below to a file called helloworld-go.yaml and apply it with kubectl

apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: helloworld-go
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: gcr.io/knative-samples/helloworld-go
          env:
            - name: TARGET
              value: Go Sample v1

kubectl apply -f helloworld-go.yaml

Send a request

Knative Services are exposed via the Host header assigned by Knative. By default, Knative will use the header Host: {service-name}.{namespace}.example.com. You can discover the appropriate Host header by checking the URL Knative has assigned to the helloworld-go service created above.
```
kubectl get ksvc helloworld-go -n default  --output=custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,URL:.status.url
```
returns
```
NAME            URL
helloworld-go   http://helloworld-go.default.example.com
```
Gloo Edge will use the Host header to route requests to the correct service. You can send a request to the helloworld-go service with curl using the Host and URL of the Gloo Edge gateway from above:
```
curl -H "Host: helloworld-go.default.example.com" $(glooctl proxy url --name knative-external-proxy)
```
returns
```
Hello Go Sample v1!
```

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Knative with Gloo Edge to manage and route to serverless applications! Try out some of the more advanced tutorials for Knative in the Knative documentation.