Knative serving documentation

Knative serving is Google's managed and fully supportedKnative offering. Knative serving abstracts away the complexity of Kubernetes, making it easy to build and deploy your serverless workloads acrosshybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues.

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Training and tutorials

Using system packages

Learn how to build a Knative serving service that transforms a graph description input parameter into a diagram in the PNG image format.

Training
Training and tutorials

Local troubleshooting of a Knative serving service

Troubleshoot a broken Knative serving service using Stackdriver tools for discovery and a local development workflow for investigation. This tutorial uses a sample project that results in runtime errors when deployed, which you troubleshoot to find and fix the problem.

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Use cases

Patterns for scalable and resilient apps

Learn patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is resilient enough to withstand service disruptions. Building and operating apps that meet these requirements requires careful planning and design.

ScalabilityResilienceHigh availability

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Use cases

Modernization path for .NET applications on Google Cloud

This document looks at the common limitations of monolithic applications and describes a gradual yet structured process for modernizing them. This document is intended for cloud architects, system administrators, and CTOs who are familiar with Windows and the .NET ecosystem and want to learn more about what modernization involves.

.NETModernizationMigration

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Use cases

Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework

The Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework provides recommendations and describes best practices to help architects, developers, administrators, and other cloud practitioners design and operate a cloud topology that's secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective.

Enterprise

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Code Samples

Starting a Kubernetes app from a template

Start your app from a template within Intellij, including Flask, Django, Node.js, Java, and Go templates.

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Code Samples

Node.js samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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Code Samples

Python samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL examples.

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Code Samples

Go samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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Code Samples

Java samples

Includes HelloWorld, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL examples, image processing, and many others.

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Code Samples

C# HelloWorld

Knative sample that can be run on Knative serving.

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Last updated 2026-02-18 UTC.