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Tuesday, May 21 • 11:55 - 12:30
Writing kubectl Plugins for Everyone: Develop, Package & Distribute - Ahmet Alp Balkan, Google & Maciej Szulik, Red Hat

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Many users install extra tools for tasks they can't do with kubectl. Did you know you can write and distribute your own kubectl subcommands? kubectl had notion of plugins since 2016, but after listening to the community feedback, SIG CLI revisited the idea, and new and simpler plugin mechanism is now available in kubectl.

The new mechanism allows anyone to write and distribute their own subcommands to kubectl. This opens the door for community contributions to make kubectl better without having to propose a feature to the kubectl core.

During this session, Maciej (lead of SIG CLI) and Ahmet (developer of Krew plugin manager) will explain:

* how kubectl plugin mechanism works under the covers
* how does a good plugin look like, best practices & available libraries
* hands-on demo of developing a plugin
* how to package plugins for multiple OS/distros and make them discoverable
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 →
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Maciej Szulik

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Maciej is a passionate developer with almost 2 decades of experience in many languages. Currently he's working on OpenShift and Kubernetes for Red Hat. Whereas at night he is hacking on side projects with python. In his spare time he enjoys reading a good book or taking photos.

KubeCon EU'19 kubectl plugins talk pdf
Tuesday May 21, 2019 11:55 - 12:30 CEST
Hall 8.0 F3
  Customizing + Extending Kubernetes