An event source is an object that links an event producer with an event sink, or consumer. A sink can be a Knative service, channel, or broker that receives events from an event source.
Currently, OpenShift Serverless supports the following event source types:
Connects a sink to the Kubernetes API server.
Periodically sends ping events with a constant payload. It can be used as a timer.
Allows you to connect core Kubernetes resource objects, such as Deployment, Job, or StatefulSet objects, with a sink.
Connect a Kafka cluster to a sink as an event source.
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You can create and manage Knative event sources using the Developer perspective in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, the kn CLI, or by applying YAML files.
Create an API server source.
Create an ping source.
Create a sink binding.
Create a Kafka source.
For more information about eventing workflows using OpenShift Serverless, see Knative Eventing architecture.
For more information about using Kafka event sources, see Using Apache Kafka with OpenShift Serverless.