E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story

Open Source Startup Podcast

Ryan Djurovich is the Founder & CEO of Nadrama, the open source infrastructure automation platform that deploys containers instantly.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Kubernetes challenges that still exist today – setup and operations are notoriously hard and complex.

• What great developer experience means to him – focused on making deployments super simple by streamlining infrastructure and common tasks.

• Core value of Nadrama – developers just want to deploy apps; Nadrama abstracts away infrastructure pain.

• His view on what being truly open source means (including using the Apache 2.0 license)

• Ryan's user discovery process - talking directly with as many users as possible, mining his network / folks he's worked with in the past, community events & meetups.

• Navigating the earliest days of Nadrama

• Security philosophy – believes in baseline security for all accounts (not just enterprise), informed by a Cloudflare background.