KUDO is built to help Dev/Ops teams manage day 2 operations of services on Kubernetes, including stateful services through the management of operators. Day 2 in this context refers to the need to support more than just initial deployment. KUDO is built to support upgrades of services along with backup, recovery and the needs of observability. In a nutshell: you would use KUDO when (or ) isn't quite enough to manage your application lifecycle.