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/

Kakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it's built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing it.

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The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live

The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects

The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github

EKS Hybrid nodes

CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA

Links from the interview

KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector

DAG

WebGL

William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field.

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• RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management

• KubeCon EU 2025 schedule

• CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025)

• kubezonnet

• linkerd.io

• Linkerd on GitHub

• Linkerd architecture

• “Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy” Blog Post (2020)

• envoyproxy.io

• Sidecar containers in Kubernetes

• Linkerd2 on GitHub

• Rust programming language

• Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks)

• Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services

• KubeCon NA 2024, “Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel”

• Cloud Native Startup Fest, “​​Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?”

John Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management.

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• KubeCon Japan CFP

• KubeCon India CFP

• Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here)

• CoreDNS

• Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes

• Control Topology Management Policies on a node

• NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs

• 2025 Kubernetes Community Day Events

This episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space.

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2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes

10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226, 227, 228, 229

CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary

Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary

Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode

LLM Gateway

Emily Fox on the podcast

Kubernetes Podcast on Bluesky

Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn

Kubernetes on Bluesky

Kubernetes Podcast on Youtube

Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes

Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.

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• Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More

• Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode

• Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

• Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog)

• SIG ContribEx Comms

• Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year)

• The Odyssey by Homer, Samuel Butler on Google Books

• Releases on Kubernetes.io

• Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha)

KubeCon North America 2024 took place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov 12-15. We interviewed people on the show floor to gather their impressions of the event, what they learned and what they want to see in the future.

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Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project

Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project

Dapr episode on the Kubernetes Podcast

Istio 1.24 release. Ambient Mesh GA

Cloud Native Heroes Challenge

CNCF Flagship events for 2025

New Cloud Native Certifications

Kubernetes certifications prices increase in 2025

wasmCloud is a CNCF incubated project

SpectroCloud $75 million Series C funding

Solo.io donates Gloo API Gateway to the CNCF

Guests:

• Rajas Kakodkar

• Jeremy Rickard

• Rey Lejano

• Jimmy Zelinskie

• Frederic Branczyk

• Lucy Sweet

• Sreekaran Srinath

• Joe Thompson

Tag runtime

SIG Security

SIG Docs

WG LTS

The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Jason Hall, Scott Rigby, Karen Chu & Ryan Nowak

Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie & Lucas Käldström

Guests are Maciej Rozacki, Product Manager on GKE for AI Training, and Wojciech Tyczyński, Software Engineer on the GKE team at Google. We explore what it means for GKE to support 65k nodes, and the open source contributions that made this possible

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The Kubernetes Podcast is on Bluesky

OpenTelemetry expanding into CI/CD observability

Gitpod is moving away from Kubernetes

OpenCost is a CNCF Incubated project

Guests:

• Maciek

• Wojciech

Kubernetes OSS Scalability thresholds

PGS on the Kubernetes Podcast

Batch Working Group

Serving Working Group episode on the podcast

Dynamic Resource Allocation

Kueue

Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue

SIG Scalability

Consistent Reads from Cache

Kubernetes Scalability: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis