Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery
Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Release Date: 04/01/2025
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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.
Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:
- web: kubernetespodcast.com
- mail: [email protected]
- twitter: @kubernetespod
- bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com
News of the week
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Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization.
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Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there!
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Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.
Links from the interview
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KRO Announcement Blogs
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Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO
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AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator
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AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project
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Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet?
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The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro
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InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool
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CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API.
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Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications.
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Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software.
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Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes.
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KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations.
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Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes.
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Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language.
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kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.