# README
= Knative Name Service :Date: 2023-08 :Revision: v0.1 :toc: macro
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== Purpose
An sample Knative service that interfaces with a database.
== Configuration
On startup, the service expects an environment variable
POSTGRES_URL or to be set.
=== PostgreSQL Configuration
The POSTGRES_URL should be in the form of a
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING[PostgreSQL connection URI],
i.e. postgresql://user:password@host:5432/dbname
It expects a existing user and database. For an example see
[source,shell] kubectl apply -k k8s/postgres
== Deploy
[source,shell]
./deploy-name-service.sh
== Test
A test pod could be started with