#250 April 1, 2025

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

Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

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: kubernetespodcast@google.com
• twitter: @kubernetespod

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.