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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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.

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