Knative graduates within the CNCF

2025-10-08 · Publisher : CNCF · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

On 8 October 2025, the CNCF announces the graduation of Knative, the serverless and event-driven layer for Kubernetes created by Google in 2018, used by Scaleway, Alibaba Cloud and Gojek, among others.

### Background On 8 October 2025, the CNCF announces the graduation of **Knative**, a serverless and event-driven platform built on Kubernetes. Knative handles infrastructure tasks such as automatic scaling (including to zero), routing and event delivery. The project was born in 2018 at Google, released version 1.0 in 2021 and joined the CNCF in incubation in 2022. ### Key facts - Created in 2018 at Google, with initial contributions from IBM, Red Hat, VMware and SAP; version 1.0 in 2021; CNCF incubation in 2022. - Hundreds of contributors and many vendors, according to the CNCF. - Links with other projects: CloudEvents, Buildpacks (in Knative Functions), Tekton (born from Knative's build system) and Gateway API. - Scaleway relies on Knative for its serverless functions and containers offerings, serving a growing number of customers. - Gojek has used Knative since 2020, first as a KServe dependency, then as a standalone component of its data science platform. ### Why it matters Knative's graduation is a signal for European providers: Scaleway makes it the base of its managed serverless, which lowers lock-in risk when a client wants to stay portable. For an IT services firm, Knative remains an operational tool in its own right: installing and running a serverless layer on Kubernetes requires skills that managed services avoid. According to a maintainer quoted, AI startups already build their offerings on Knative. ### Takeaway A standard Kubernetes serverless framework reaches the CNCF's top maturity level.

Tags : Serverless, Kubernetes, Cloud natif, Open Source, Scaleway