Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative’s Graduation

Graduation marks Knative’s readiness for widespread production use, with upcoming features aimed at bridging legacy systems and expanding AI and cloud native integrations Key Highlights: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of Knative, a Kubernetes-native serverless and event-driven application platform, marking its readiness for widespread production use. Knative removes much of the complexity of running modern workloads on Kubernetes by handling infrastructure tasks like autoscaling, routing, and event delivery. This helps organizations reduce costs, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation. Developers gain a faster on-ramp to Kubernetes; platform teams simplify operations; and enterprises and startups alike benefit from easier integration with AI and cloud native technologies. Knative is now a graduated CNCF project and is available for production use today. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 8, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the graduation of Knative , a serverless, event-driven application layer on top of Kubernetes. Knative simplifies how developers build, deploy, and run modern workloads by abstracting the infrastructure concerns such as autoscaling, routing, event delivery, and building containers. It allows teams to focus on architecture and business logic and get started quickly on Kubernetes without needing to ramp up on dozens of Kubernetes concepts and resources. As the C-suite looks to optimize costs and simplify operations, Knative can do so with features like autoscaling to zero to minimize infrastructure waste. “Knative fills several gaps in the cloud native ecosystem as an easy on-ramp to Kubernetes, with Knative’s eventing acting as the missing skeleton for connecting events to reactions,” said Evan Anderson, Knative co-founder. “It’s gratifying to see the vision that inspired Knative realized and adopted across the CNCF.