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Thursday, November 21 • 11:50am - 12:25pm
Making Plugins Mainstream: Developing a Plugin Manager for Kubectl - Ahmet Alp Balkan, Google

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Kubectl Plugins are an extension mechanism to add custom commands to Kubernetes developers’ favorite tool: kubectl. As the plugin mechanism became stable recently in Kubernetes 1.12 and people started to develop plugins, we realized a challenge is upon us: How to make these plugins easy to develop, package and distribute.

This talk is a Kubernetes SIG CLI subproject "krew" and how we have designed and built a "cross-platform package manager" that makes plugins accessible to vast amount of Kubernetes users easily.

This talk will go through:
* Kubernetes project’s emphasis on extensibility
* Introduction to kubectl plugins and writing a small plugin
* Designing Krew: how to write a plugin manager for kubernetes without writing a fully-fledged package manager
* Life of a kubectl plugin managed by Krew
* Challenges of building a curated catalog of plugins as Kubernetes OSS community
Speakers
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Ahmet Alp Balkan

Software Engineer, Google
Ahmet Alp Balkan is a Software Engineer at Google, working on developer experiences for open source technologies like Kubernetes and Knative. He is the maintainer of developer tooling like kubectx.dev and krew.dev, which is a Kubernetes SIG CLI sub-project. At Google, he works on... Read More →

Making kubectl plugins mainstream @ KubeCon SD (1) pdf
Thursday November 21, 2019 11:50am - 12:25pm PST
Room 14AB - San Diego Convention Center Mezzanine Level
  Customizing + Extending Kubernetes