KUDO is the Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator, a toolkit for writing operators for Kubernetes. Gerred Dillon works on KUDO at D2IQ, formerly Mesosphere, and joins Craig and Adam to discuss KUDO, how Mesos frameworks relate to Kubernetes operators, and taking care of chickens.

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Links from the interview

• D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere)
• Apache Mesos
  • Mesos frameworks
  • Marathon
  • DC/OS
  • DC/OS Commons
• KUDO
  • Controllers
  • Operator pattern
• Kubebuilder
• Operator SDK
• Omakase: Japanese for “I will leave that up to you”
• Tasks
  • Getting started with KUDO
• Metacontroller
  • Proposal to move under Kubebuilder
  • Vitess operator
• Tekton
• Helm
• D2IQ’s Konvoy distribution of Kubernetes
• Operators using KUDO:
  • Kafka
  • Cassandra
  • Spark
  • OpenEBS operator
  • Lightbend templates for Akka
• KUDO proposed to the CNCF
  • CNCF SIG Application Delivery
• Gerred’s KUDO webinar for the CNCF
• Contributing to KUDO
• KUDO Slack
• Gerred’s bio
  • Dry brining a chicken
• Gerred Dillon on GitHub