Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery

Today we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins.

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News of the week

• Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization.

  • Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet

  • Kueue Project

• Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there!

  • Google Cloud Next

• Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.

  • kagent.dev

Links from the interview

• Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)

• KRO Announcement Blogs

  • Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO

  • AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator

  • AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project

• Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet?

• The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro

• InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool

• CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API.

• Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications.

• Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software.

• Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes.

• KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations.

• Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes.

• Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language.

• kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.