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Announcing the Knative Quickstart plugin

Author: Paul Schweigert, Senior Software Engineer @ IBM

Date: 2021-09-17

We're pleased to announce that the quickstart plugin for the Knative client is now available. The plugin allows users to very easily set up a local Knative environment with just a single command using a local KinD or minikube cluster.

$ kn quickstart kind
Running Knative Quickstart using Kind
โœ… Checking dependencies...
    Kind version is: kind v0.11.1 go1.16.4 linux/amd64

โ˜ธ Creating Kind cluster...
    Cluster ready
๐Ÿฟ Installing Knative Serving v0.25.0 ...
    CRDs installed...
    Core installed...
    Finished installing Knative Serving
๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ Installing Kourier networking layer v0.25.0 ...
    Kourier installed...
    Ingress patched...
    Kourier service installed...
    Domain DNS set up...
    Finished installing Kourier Networking layer
๐Ÿ”ฅ Installing Knative Eventing v0.25.0 ...
    CRDs installed...
    Core installed...
    In-memory channel installed...
    Mt-channel broker installed...
    Example broker installed...
    Finished installing Knative Eventing
๐Ÿš€ Knative install took: 1m50s
๐ŸŽ‰ Now have some fun with Serverless and Event Driven Apps!

The plugin provides an easy way to install the main components of Knative (Serving and Eventing) via the command line, using the same tool that you use to create Knative resources...

Use the Knative client to spin up your environment:

$ kn quickstart kind

Use the Knative client to create a Knative service:

$ kn service create hello --image ghcr.io/knative/helloworld-go:latest

Ready to try it out? Head over to the Getting Started with Knative guide to learn how to download the plugin and get started with Knative!

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