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Infra (Infra HQ) is a Toronto-based developer tools company providing access management software that gives engineering teams secure, auditable, time-limited access to servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases.
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Infra was founded in 2019 by Michael Hyatt and Jeff Morgan, who had previously co-founded Kitematic, an easy-to-use interface for running Docker containers on a desktop computer, which they sold to Docker before continuing to work on Docker Desktop and other Docker-related tools, experience that gave them direct visibility into a common but underserved problem: managing who has access to which internal infrastructure, such as Kubernetes clusters, servers, and databases, is a persistent operational challenge for engineering teams of nearly every size, with the founders observing that many smaller teams simply grant broad administrative access to all developers by default for convenience, while larger, more security-conscious teams either build extensive custom internal tooling to manage granular access, or spend significant ongoing manual effort onboarding and offboarding individual team members' specific permissions as they join, change roles, or leave. Infra's open-source and commercial platform provides a centralized system for managing access to cloud infrastructure resources, starting with Kubernetes clusters and expanding to additional infrastructure types including databases and SSH-accessible servers, letting engineering and security teams define access policies centrally, integrate with existing identity providers and single sign-on systems, and generate time-limited, auditable credentials rather than relying on long-lived, broadly scoped access credentials that create ongoing security risk if compromised or if an employee's access isn't promptly revoked after they change roles or leave the company. This kind of infrastructure access management has become increasingly important as engineering organizations have grown and their underlying infrastructure has become more complex and distributed across multiple cloud providers and internal systems, making manual, ad hoc access management increasingly impractical and risky from both an operational efficiency and security compliance perspective. Infra emerged from Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch and has continued to develop both an open-source core product and commercial offerings for teams needing more advanced access management capabilities, positioning itself within the broader identity and access management category specifically focused on infrastructure and developer-facing systems rather than more traditional employee application access management.
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