Meet John Dietz, the friendly CEO and relentless technical cofounder driving Konstruct, an open source company dedicated to providing instant Kubernetes platforms in the cloud, data center, home lab, or laptop.

John and his cofounder, Jared Edwards, embarked on the Konstruct venture building the Kubefirst product off-hours while navigating a year-long stealth enterprise pilot before open sourcing the project onto the CNCF landscape. Konstruct was acquired by Kubeshop in 2022, and then again by private investor Mark Boost 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.