# Kn

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The Knative client `kn` is your door to the [Knative](https://knative.dev)
world. It allows you to create Knative resources interactively from the command
line or from within scripts.

`kn` offers you:

- Full support for managing all features of
  [Knative Serving](https://github.com/knative/serving) (services, revisions,
  traffic splits)
- Growing support for [Knative eventing](https://github.com/knative/eventing),
  closely following its development (managing of sources & triggers)
- A plugin architecture similar to that of `kubectl` plugins
- A thin client-specific API in golang which helps with tasks like synchronously
  waiting on Knative service write operations.
- An easy integration of Knative into Tekton Pipelines by using
  [`kn` in a Tekton `Task`](https://github.com/tektoncd/catalog/tree/master/task/kn).


This client uses the
[Knative Serving](https://github.com/knative/docs/blob/main/docs/serving/spec/knative-api-specification-1.0.md)
and
[Knative Eventing](https://github.com/knative/eventing/tree/main/docs/spec)
APIs exclusively so that it will work with any Knative installation, even those
that are not Kubernetes based. It does not help with _installing_ Knative itself
though. Please refer to the various
[Knative installation options](https://knative.dev/docs/install/) for how to
install Knative with its prerequisites.

## Documentation

Start with the [user's guide](docs/README.md) to learn more. You can read about
common use cases, get detailed documentation on each command, and learn how to
extend the `kn` CLI. For more information, have a look at:

- [User guide](docs/README.md)
  - Installation - How to install `kn` and run on your machine
  - Examples - Use case based examples
- [Reference Manual](docs/cmd/kn.md) - all possible commands and options with
  usage examples

Additionally you can visit [knative.dev](https://knative.dev) for more examples.

## Developers

If you are interested in contributing, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
and [DEVELOPMENT.md](docs/DEVELOPMENT.md).
