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Install by using the Knative Operator

Knative provides a Kubernetes Operator to install, configure and manage Knative. You can install the Serving component, Eventing component, or both on your cluster.

The following table describes the supported versions of Serving and Eventing for the Knative Operator:

Operator Serving Eventing
v1.8 v1.8.0
v1.7.0, v1.7.1 and v1.7.2
v1.6.0 and v1.6.1
v1.5.0		 v1.8.0
v1.7.0, v1.7.1, v1.7.2 and v1.7.3
v1.6.0, v1.6.1 and v1.6.2
v1.5.0, v1.5.1, v1.5.2, v1.5.3, v1.5.4, v1.5.5 and v1.5.6

先决条件

在安装Knative之前，您必须满足以下前提条件:

  • For prototyping purposes, Knative works on most local deployments of Kubernetes. For example, you can use a local, one-node cluster that has 3 CPUs and 4 GB of memory.

    Tip

    You can install a local distribution of Knative for development purposes using the Knative Quickstart plugin

  • For production purposes, it is recommended that:

    • If you have only one node in your cluster, you need at least 6 CPUs, 6 GB of memory, and 30 GB of disk storage.
    • If you have multiple nodes in your cluster, for each node you need at least 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, and 20 GB of disk storage.
    • You have a cluster that uses Kubernetes v1.23 or newer.
    • You have installed the kubectl CLI.
    • Your Kubernetes cluster must have access to the internet, because Kubernetes needs to be able to fetch images. To pull from a private registry, see Deploying images from a private container registry.

Caution

The system requirements provided are recommendations only. The requirements for your installation might vary, depending on whether you use optional components, such as a networking layer.

Install the Knative Operator

Before you install the Knative Serving and Eventing components, first install the Knative Operator.

Warning

Knative Operator 1.5 is the last version that supports CRDs with both v1alpha1 and v1beta1. If you are upgrading an existing Operator install from v1.2 or earlier to v1.3 or later, run the following command to upgrade the existing custom resources to v1beta1 before installing the current version:

kubectl create -f https://github.com/knative/operator/releases/download/knative-v1.5.1/operator-post-install.yaml

To install the latest stable Operator release, run the command:

kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/knative-nightly/operator/latest/operator.yaml

You can find information about the released versions of the Knative Operator on the releases page.

Verify your Knative Operator installation

  1. Because the Operator is installed to the default namespace, ensure you set the current namespace to default by running the command:

    kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=default

  2. Check the Operator deployment status by running the command:

    kubectl get deployment knative-operator

    If the Operator is installed correctly, the deployment shows a Ready status:

    NAME               READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
knative-operator   1/1     1            1           19h

Track the log

To track the log of the Operator, run the command:

kubectl logs -f deploy/knative-operator

Install Knative Serving

To install Knative Serving you must create a custom resource (CR), add a networking layer to the CR, and configure DNS.

Create the Knative Serving custom resource

To create the custom resource for the latest available Knative Serving in the Operator:

  1. Copy the following YAML into a file:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
  namespace: knative-serving

    Note

    When you don't specify a version by using spec.version field, the Operator defaults to the latest available version.

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

Install the networking layer

Knative Operator can configure the Knative Serving component with different network layer options. Istio is the default network layer if the ingress is not specified in the Knative Serving CR. If you choose to use the default Istio network layer, you must install Istio on your cluster. Because of this, you might find it easier to configure Kourier as your networking layer.

Click on each of the following tabs to see how you can configure Knative Serving with different ingresses:

The following steps install Kourier and enable its Knative integration:

  1. To configure Knative Serving to use Kourier, add spec.ingress.kourier and spec.config.network to your Serving CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
  namespace: knative-serving
spec:
  # ...
  ingress:
    kourier:
      enabled: true
  config:
    network:
      ingress-class: "kourier.ingress.networking.knative.dev"

  2. Apply the YAML file for your Serving CR by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of your Serving CR file.

  3. Fetch the External IP or CNAME by running the command:

    kubectl --namespace knative-serving get service kourier

    Save this for configuring DNS later.

The following steps install Istio to enable its Knative integration:

  1. Install Istio.

  2. If you installed Istio under a namespace other than the default istio-system:

    1. Add spec.config.istio to your Serving CR YAML file as follows:

      apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
  namespace: knative-serving
spec:
  # ...
  config:
    istio:
      local-gateway.<local-gateway-namespace>.knative-local-gateway: "knative-local-gateway.<istio-namespace>.svc.cluster.local"

      Where:

      • <local-gateway-namespace> is the local gateway namespace, which is the same as Knative Serving namespace knative-serving.
      • <istio-namespace> is the namespace where Istio is installed.

    2. Apply the YAML file for your Serving CR by running the command:

      kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

      Where <filename> is the name of your Serving CR file.

  3. Fetch the External IP or CNAME by running the command:

    kubectl get svc istio-ingressgateway -n <istio-namespace>

    Save this for configuring DNS later.

The following steps install Contour and enable its Knative integration:

  1. Install a properly configured Contour:

    kubectl apply --filename https://storage.googleapis.com/knative-nightly/net-contour/latest/contour.yaml

  2. To configure Knative Serving to use Contour, add spec.ingress.contour spec.config.network to your Serving CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
  namespace: knative-serving
spec:
  # ...
  ingress:
    contour:
      enabled: true
  config:
    network:
      ingress-class: "contour.ingress.networking.knative.dev"

  3. Apply the YAML file for your Serving CR by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of your Serving CR file.

  4. Fetch the External IP or CNAME by running the command:

    kubectl --namespace contour-external get service envoy

    Save this for configuring DNS later.

Verify the Knative Serving deployment

  1. Monitor the Knative deployments:

    kubectl get deployment -n knative-serving

    If Knative Serving has been successfully deployed, all deployments of the Knative Serving will show READY status. Here is a sample output:

    NAME                   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
activator              1/1     1            1           18s
autoscaler             1/1     1            1           18s
autoscaler-hpa         1/1     1            1           14s
controller             1/1     1            1           18s
domain-mapping         1/1     1            1           12s
domainmapping-webhook  1/1     1            1           12s
webhook                1/1     1            1           17s

  2. Check the status of Knative Serving Custom Resource:

    kubectl get KnativeServing knative-serving -n knative-serving

    If Knative Serving is successfully installed, you should see:

    NAME              VERSION             READY   REASON
knative-serving   <version number>    True

配置 DNS

可以配置DNS以避免使用主机标头运行curl命令。

下面的选项卡展开显示配置DNS的说明。 按照以下步骤选择DNS:

Knative provides a Kubernetes Job called default-domain that configures Knative Serving to use sslip.io as the default DNS suffix.

kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/knative-nightly/serving/latest/serving-default-domain.yaml

Warning

This will only work if the cluster LoadBalancer Service exposes an IPv4 address or hostname, so it will not work with IPv6 clusters or local setups like minikube unless minikube tunnel is running.

In these cases, see the "Real DNS" or "Temporary DNS" tabs.

要为Knative配置DNS，请从建立网络中获取External IP或CNAME，并按照以下方法与您的DNS提供商进行配置:

  • If the networking layer produced an External IP address, then configure a wildcard A record for the domain:

    # Here knative.example.com is the domain suffix for your cluster
*.knative.example.com == A 35.233.41.212

  • If the networking layer produced a CNAME, then configure a CNAME record for the domain:

    # Here knative.example.com is the domain suffix for your cluster
*.knative.example.com == CNAME a317a278525d111e89f272a164fd35fb-1510370581.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com

  • Once your DNS provider has been configured, add spec.config.domain into your existing Serving CR, and apply it:

    # Replace knative.example.com with your domain suffix
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1alpha1
kind: KnativeServing
metadata:
  name: knative-serving
  namespace: knative-serving
spec:
  ...
  config:
    domain:
      "knative.example.com": ""
  ...

如果您正在使用curl访问样例应用程序，或者您自己的Knative应用程序，并且不能使用"Magic DNS (sslip.io)"或“Real DNS”方法，那么有一种临时的方法。 这对于那些希望在不更改DNS配置的情况下评估Knative的人是很有用的，就像"Real DNS"方法一样，或者因为使用本地minikube或IPv6集群而不能使用 "Magic DNS"方法。

要使用curl访问你的应用程序，使用以下方法:

  1. 启动应用程序后，获取应用程序的URL: 

    kubectl get ksvc
    The output should be similar to: 
    NAME            URL                                        LATESTCREATED         LATESTREADY           READY   REASON
helloworld-go   http://helloworld-go.default.example.com   helloworld-go-vqjlf   helloworld-go-vqjlf   True

  2. Instruct curl to connect to the External IP or CNAME defined by the networking layer mentioned in section 3, and use the -H "Host:" command-line option to specify the Knative application's host name. For example, if the networking layer defines your External IP and port to be http://192.168.39.228:32198 and you wish to access the helloworld-go application mentioned earlier, use: 

    curl -H "Host: helloworld-go.default.example.com" http://192.168.39.228:32198
    In the case of the provided helloworld-go sample application, using the default configuration, the output is: 
    Hello Go Sample v1!
    Refer to the "Real DNS" method for a permanent solution.

Install Knative Eventing

To install Knative Eventing you must apply the custom resource (CR). Optionally, you can install the Knative Eventing component with different event sources.

Create the Knative Eventing custom resource

To create the custom resource for the latest available Knative Eventing in the Operator:

  1. Copy the following YAML into a file:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing

    Note

    When you do not specify a version by using spec.version field, the Operator defaults to the latest available version.

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

Installing a specific version of Eventing

Cluster administrators can install a specific version of Knative Eventing by using the spec.version field. For example, if you want to install Knative Eventing v1.7, you can apply the following KnativeEventing CR:

apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  version: "1.7"

You can also run the following command to make the equivalent change:

kn operator install --component eventing -v 1.7 -n knative-eventing

If spec.version is not specified, the Knative Operator installs the latest available version of Knative Eventing. If users specify an invalid or unavailable version, the Knative Operator will do nothing. The Knative Operator always includes the latest 3 minor release versions.

If Knative Eventing is already managed by the Operator, updating the spec.version field in the KnativeEventing CR enables upgrading or downgrading the Knative Eventing version, without requiring modifications to the Operator.

Note that the Knative Operator only permits upgrades or downgrades by one minor release version at a time. For example, if the current Knative Eventing deployment is version 1.4, you must upgrade to 1.5 before upgrading to 1.6.

Installing customized Knative Eventing

The Operator provides you with the flexibility to install Knative Eventing customized to your own requirements. As long as the manifests of customized Knative Eventing are accessible to the Operator, you can install them.

There are two modes available for you to install customized manifests: overwrite mode and append mode. With overwrite mode, under .spec.manifests, you must define all manifests needed for Knative Eventing to install because the Operator will no longer install any default manifests. With append mode, under .spec.additionalManifests, you only need to define your customized manifests. The customized manifests are installed after default manifests are applied.

Overwrite mode

Use overwrite mode when you want to customize all Knative Eventing manifests to be installed.

For example, if you want to install a customized Knative Eventing only, you can create and apply the following Eventing CR:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  version: $spec_version
  manifests:
  - URL: https://my-eventing/eventing.yaml

This example installs the customized Knative Eventing at version $spec_version which is available at https://my-eventing/eventing.yaml.

Attention

You can make the customized Knative Eventing available in one or multiple links, as the spec.manifests supports a list of links. The ordering of the URLs is critical. Put the manifest you want to apply first on the top.

We strongly recommend you to specify the version and the valid links to the customized Knative Eventing, by leveraging both spec.version and spec.manifests. Do not skip either field.

Append mode

You can use append mode to add your customized manifests into the default manifests.

For example, if you only want to customize a few resources but you still want to install the default Knative Eventing, you can create and apply the following Eventing CR:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
---
apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  version: $spec_version
  additionalManifests:
  - URL: https://my-eventing/eventing-custom.yaml

This example installs the default Knative Eventing, and installs your customized resources available at https://my-eventing/eventing-custom.yaml.

Knative Operator installs the default manifests of Knative Eventing at the version $spec_version, and then installs your customized manifests based on them.

Installing Knative Eventing with event sources

Knative Operator can configure the Knative Eventing component with different event sources. Click on each of the following tabs to see how you can configure Knative Eventing with different event sources:

To configure Knative Eventing to install Ceph as the event source:

  1. Add spec.source.ceph to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    ceph:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

To configure Knative Eventing to install GitHub as the event source:

  1. Add spec.source.github to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    github:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

To configure Knative Eventing to install GitLab as the event source:

  1. Add spec.source.gitlab to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    gitlab:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

To configure Knative Eventing to install Kafka as the event source:

  1. Add spec.source.kafka to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    kafka:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

To configure Knative Eventing to install RabbitMQ as the event source,

  1. Add spec.source.rabbitmq to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    rabbitmq:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

To configure Knative Eventing to install Redis as the event source:

  1. Add spec.source.redis to your Eventing CR YAML file as follows:

    apiVersion: operator.knative.dev/v1beta1
kind: KnativeEventing
metadata:
  name: knative-eventing
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  # ...
  source:
    redis:
      enabled: true

  2. Apply the YAML file by running the command:

    kubectl apply -f <filename>.yaml

    Where <filename> is the name of the file you created in the previous step.

Verify the Knative Eventing deployment

  1. Monitor the Knative deployments:

    kubectl get deployment -n knative-eventing

    If Knative Eventing has been successfully deployed, all deployments of the Knative Eventing will show READY status. Here is a sample output:

    NAME                    READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
eventing-controller     1/1     1            1           43s
eventing-webhook        1/1     1            1           42s
imc-controller          1/1     1            1           39s
imc-dispatcher          1/1     1            1           38s
mt-broker-controller    1/1     1            1           36s
mt-broker-filter        1/1     1            1           37s
mt-broker-ingress       1/1     1            1           37s
pingsource-mt-adapter   0/0     0            0           43s
sugar-controller        1/1     1            1           36s

  2. Check the status of Knative Eventing Custom Resource:

    kubectl get KnativeEventing knative-eventing -n knative-eventing

    If Knative Eventing is successfully installed, you should see:

    NAME               VERSION             READY   REASON
knative-eventing   <version number>    True

Uninstalling Knative

Knative Operator prevents unsafe removal of Knative resources. Even if the Knative Serving and Knative Eventing CRs are successfully removed, all the CRDs in Knative are still kept in the cluster. All your resources relying on Knative CRDs can still work.

Removing the Knative Serving component

To remove the Knative Serving CR run the command:

kubectl delete KnativeServing knative-serving -n knative-serving

Removing Knative Eventing component

To remove the Knative Eventing CR run the command:

kubectl delete KnativeEventing knative-eventing -n knative-eventing

Removing the Knative Operator:

If you have installed Knative using the release page, remove the operator by running the command:

kubectl delete -f https://storage.googleapis.com/knative-nightly/operator/latest/operator.yaml

If you have installed Knative from source, uninstall it using the following command while in the root directory for the source:

ko delete -f config/

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