Installing Gloo and Knative
This lesson outlines the process for integrating Gloo and Knative with Jenkins X.
We could visit the Knative documentation and follow the instructions to install it and configure it. Then we could reconfigure Jenkins X to use it. But we won’t do any of that, because Jenkins X already comes with a method to install and integrate Knative. Jenkins X allows us to install the Gloo add-on, which, in turn, will install Knative.
What is Gloo? #
Gloo is a Kubernetes Ingress controller and API gateway. The main reason for using it in our context is its ability to route requests to applications managed and autoscaled by Knative. The alternative to Gloo would be Istio ...
