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

Apr 1, 2025

 

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.