I've read the announcement now twice but I can't make out what this is actually good for.

I know what they mean with serverless, so that's not it.

- is this tied to CI in any way so stuff can get tested via knative?

- is this CI for functions to be deployed (via OpenFaaS or Lambda)?

- is this just a frontend for serverless backends?

I'm totally lost, I use GitLab as a hosted amount of git repos, with inclusion of CI runners, so maybe that's the wrong angle of approach? Which _problem_ does it solve? Is it to make using serverless easier? If I wanted to use 'functions' would I first have to install GitLab? Why would I use a code hosting platform for that?