Launch HN: Infra (YC W21) – Open-source access management for Kubernetes

Hey HN! We’re Jeff and Michael, and we’re building Infra ( https://github.com/infrahq/infra ). Infra is a tool for managing access to cloud infrastructure. We’re starting with Kubernetes and have a roadmap to support Postgres, SSH and much more. Michael and I were the co-founders of Kitematic, an easy way to run Docker on the desktop. We sold the company to Docker and built Docker Desktop while there. After that, we worked on Infra App, a Kubernetes client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Between what users told us and our time at Docker, it became obvious that managing infrastructure access was becoming increasingly painful. Many larger teams don’t give access to developers, while smaller teams often just grant admin access to everyone. Teams in between either build extensive tooling in-house (e.g. Segment’s Access Service), or they end up spending a lot of time manually onboarding and offboarding team members with the right permissions. We wanted to help teams securely