OpenShell donation to CNCF, with NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine, Kubernetes Recipes and Snapshot
NVIDIA is contributing its OpenShell agent security runtime to the CNCF Sandbox and announcing NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine, Kubernetes Recipes and Snapshot at KubeCon.
OpenShell, an open source runtime that applies deterministic policy controls to agent activity, moves to CNCF Sandbox governance. NVIDIA also contributes to Google-led Agent Substrate and is working with Google on an OpenShell and Agent Substrate integration. NVKE and NVKR enter public preview, and Snapshot restores checkpointed inference replicas in seconds without model reload or warmup.
- Date
- Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Lab
- NVIDIA
- Kind
- infra
- Access
- open standard
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Crusoe GLM-5.3 time to ready on HGX B300 | about 8 minutes to 31 seconds design partner test on its own workload | Crusoe |
| Saturn Cloud vLLM startup time | 2 to 8.5 minutes down to 6 to 34 seconds scale-from-zero inference benchmark | Saturn Cloud |
The components are open source projects. NVKE and NVKR are in public preview. The post says OpenShell launched less than a year ago.
Sources
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