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
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:
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

KUDO, with Gerred Dillon