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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• 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

• 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.

Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way.

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• CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level.

• • CNCF Maturity Levels

• Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support.

• Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

• LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn

• Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception

• Flannel: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes.

• Spanner: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service.

• Kubernetes Architecture - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs!

• Kubernetes Resource Model

• Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)

• Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?

Lior Lieberman is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway.

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• NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes

• Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project

• Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF

• New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF

• Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin

• GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources

• Migrating from Ingress

• Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub

• kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller

• GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/