Create a custom event source

If you want to create a custom event source for a specific event producer type, you must create the components that enable forwarding events from that producer type to a Knative sink.

This type of integration requires more effort than using some simpler integration types, such as SinkBinding or ContainerSource; however, this provides the most polished result and is the easiest integration type for users to consume. By providing a custom resource definition (CRD) for your source rather than a general container definition, it is easier to expose meaningful configuration options and documentation to users and hide implementation details.

Note

If you have created a new event source type that is not a part of the core Knative project, you can open a pull request to add it to the list of Third-Party Sources, and announce the new source in one of the Knative Slack channels.

You can also add your event source to the knative-sandbox organization, by following the instructions to create a sandbox repository.

Required components

To create a custom event source, you must create the following components:

Using the sample source

The Knative project provides a sample repository that contains a template for a basic event source controller and a receive adapter.

For more information on using the sample source, see the documentation.

Additional resources

• Implement CloudEvent binding interfaces, cloudevent’s go sdk provides libraries for standard access to configure interfaces as needed.

• Controller runtime (this is what we share via injection) incorporates protocol specific config into “generic controller” CRD.