Today we welcome <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-butler/">Jesse Butler</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasslattery/">Nic Slattery</a> 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: <a href= "https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a> - mail: <a href= "mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a> - twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a> - bluesky: <a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com">@kubernetespodcast.com</a>   News of the week <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization. </li> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/03/23/introducing-jobset/">Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue">Kueue Project</a> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there! </li> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next">Google Cloud Next</a> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes. </li> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://kagent.dev/">kagent.dev</a> </li> </ul> </ul> Links from the interview <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <a href= "https://kro.run/">Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> KRO Announcement Blogs </li> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-kube-resource-orchestrator?e=48754805"> Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-open-source-kro-kube-resource-orchestrator/"> AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="2"> <a href= "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/kube-resource-orchestrator-from-experiment-to-community-project/"> AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project</a> </li> </ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Reddit thread - <a href= "https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1ivhubw/anyone_tried_kro_for_kubernetes_resource/"> anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet?</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> The New Stack: <a href= "https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-gets-a-new-resource-orchestrator-in-the-form-of-kro/"> Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> InfoQ: <a href= "https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/kube-resource-orchestrator/">Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool</a> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> CRD (Custom Resource Definition): <a href= "https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/"> Kubernetes CRDs</a> - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Knative: <a href= "https://knative.dev/">Knative.dev</a> - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Terraform: <a href= "https://www.terraform.io/">Terraform.io</a> - Infrastructure as code software. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Helm: <a href= "https://helm.sh/">Helm.sh</a> - A package manager for Kubernetes. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): <a href="https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kpt">KPT</a> - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Crossplane: <a href= "http://cncf.io/projects/crossplane">cncf.io/projects/crossplane</a> - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> Common Expression Language (CEL): <a href="https://cel.dev/">cel.dev</a> - A powerful expression language. </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> kubebuilder: <a href= "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder">kubebuilder on GitHub</a> - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation. </li> </ul>

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