E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story

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.

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E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story is an episode from The OSS Startup Podcast by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC).

This episode is 00:32:42 long.

This episode was published on Aug 24, 2025.

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