Knative Workflow Tips
Quick recommendations and tips for various processes.
Development Workflow
- Write your functions
- Use
serverless deploy
when you've made changes toserverless.yml
and in CI/CD systems. - Use
serverless invoke -f myFunction
to test your functions on Knative. - Write tests to run locally.
Using stages
- At the very least, use a
dev
andprod
stage. - In larger teams, each member should use a separate Knative installation and their own stage for development.
Larger Projects
- Break your application / project into multiple Serverless services.
- Model your Serverless services around data models or workflows.
- Keep the functions in your Serverless services to a minimum.
Cheat Sheet
A handy list of commands to use when developing with the Serverless Framework.
Create a service:
Creates a new service
serverless create -p [SERVICE NAME] -t knative-docker
Install a service
This is a convenience method to install a pre-made Serverless service locally by downloading the GitHub repo and unzipping it.
serverless install -u [GITHUB URL OF SERVICE]
Deploy all
Use this when you have made changes to your functions or events in serverless.yml
or you simply want to deploy all changes within your service at the same time.
serverless deploy -s [STAGE NAME]
Invoke function
Invokes a Knative Serving service returns it's output.
serverless invoke -f [FUNCTION NAME] -s [STAGE NAME] -l
Info
See information about your deployed / undeployed functions by running the info command in your service directory.
serverless info