Matt Williams, co-founder of Infra, shares insights on simplifying Kubernetes user management, certificate distribution, and revocation. Infra's open-source tool tackles pain points in user authentication and permissions. The podcast covers Infra's history, Datadog's evolution, challenges in managing SSH and certificates in Kubernetes, and a demo of Infra's Kubernetes authentication and RBAC tool.
Infra simplifies Kubernetes user management by providing centralized RBAC and auth solutions.
Infra addresses the pain points of certificate distribution and revocation in Kubernetes clusters, enhancing cluster security.
Deep dives
Introduction of Infra and its Open Source Tool
Infra, a company simplifying centralized infrastructure user authentication and permissions, presents its open-source tool. Matt Williams from Infra explains the complexities of Kubernetes user management and showcases the ease of getting started with Infra.
Evolution of Infra from Previous Ventures
The founders of Infra, previously behind Kitematic, shift their focus to address Kubernetes user management challenges. With their experience in creating user-friendly tools, such as Kitematic, they now introduce Infra to streamline managing Kubernetes clusters.
Minimizing Complexities in Managing Kubernetes Users
Infra's tool simplifies the process of creating users and groups in Kubernetes clusters. With a user-friendly interface and a focus on solving pain points like certificate management, Infra aims to provide a straightforward solution for teams without centralized user management.
Future Developments and Security Focus of Infra
Infra envisions expanding its capabilities to include auditing features and integration with various identity providers like Google or Okta. By ensuring secure defaults and an easy-to-use model, Infra positions itself as an essential tool for secure Kubernetes cluster management.
Bret is joined by Matt Williams of Infra to show off their open source project Infra, which provides easy, centralized RBAC and auth to Kubernetes and more.
Infra is a new company taking on simplifying centralized infrastructure, user authentication and permissions. Their open source tool by the same name is quite easy to start with. In this episode, Matt does a great job of explaining the pain points of Kubernetes user management, certificate distribution and revocation, and more pain points that Infra is bringing simplicity to.
Streamed live on YouTube on November 10, 2022. Includes demos.
Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #191).