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Knative vs OpenFaaS: What are the differences?
What is Knative? Kubernetes-based platform for serverless workloads. Knative provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere: on premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center.
What is OpenFaaS? Serverless Functions Made Simple for Kubernetes and Docker. Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes.
Knative and OpenFaaS can be primarily classified as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.
Knative and OpenFaaS are both open source tools. OpenFaaS with 14.8K GitHub stars and 1.17K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Knative with 2.02K GitHub stars and 394 GitHub forks.
Pros of Knative
- Portability4
- On top of Kubernetes3
- Autoscaling3
- Secure Eventing2
- Eventing2
- Open source2
Pros of OpenFaaS
- Open source5
- Ease4
- Autoscaling3
- Community2
- Documentation2
- Async1