John Dietz
Kubefirst cofounder, GitOps and Cloud Native Enthusiast
Meet John Dietz, the friendly CEO and relentless technical cofounder driving Kubefirst, an ambitious open source product dedicated to providing companies with free instant Kubernetes platforms. John and his cofounder, Jared Edwards, embarked on the Kubefirst building the product off-hours while navigating a year-long stealth enterprise pilot before open sourcing the project onto the CNCF landscape. Kubefirst was acquired by Kubeshop in 2022, and then again by the Civo Cloud in 2024. John has been at the forefront of Kubernetes adoption since 2017 and has assisted hundreds of companies in their transition to cloud native architectures with the Kubefirst open source platform.
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