Next Steps¶

Choose a next step based on the exercise you completed. Quickstart introduces Services, autoscaling, traffic splitting, and event routing; the local-first Functions exercise introduces editing and invoking a Go HTTP handler. You do not need to complete both before choosing what to do next.

Continue with a guided exercise¶

Build the Bookstore after the basics: process review events with functions and a Sequence, then store accepted reviews. The core route does not require Slack or Camel K. Read its setup requirements before reusing your cluster.
Write and run a Go HTTP function locally: install func, edit the generated handler, and recognize its response. No cluster or registry account is required for local execution; deployment is optional.

Apply or understand what you tried¶

Convert a Kubernetes Deployment to a Knative Service.
Autoscaling task: Set a concurrency target for a Service.
Autoscaling explanation: How concurrency affects autoscaling.
Autoscaling reference: Concurrency settings and scale bounds.
Understand Revisions and the Serving request flow.
Functions: use the guided follow-on to install, create, and run locally, or go directly to running, deploying, and invoking your own function.

Apply or troubleshoot an event route¶

Route matching events: Using Triggers.
Configure and verify failure handling: Handling Delivery Failure. This task uses an isolated failure test, not the live Quickstart route.
Look up filtering or delivery fields: Trigger filtering reference and Event delivery reference.
No events arrive: Events do not reach a subscriber.
Dispatch errors or dead-letter events: Events repeatedly fail delivery.

If you created a disposable cluster for Quickstart or optional Functions deployment, keep it only while experimenting; otherwise clean it up. A local-only function exercise has no cluster to delete.

Return to your exercise: Quickstart event completion · Functions local/deployment completion

Cleanup, if you created a cluster: Clean up the disposable environment

Knative samples¶

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Explore the Knative docs¶

See the following guides for documentation specific to your use case:

Knative books¶

Books to help you understand Knative concepts and get additional examples:

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