NVIDIA donates OpenShell to CNCF and expands AI infrastructure

OpenShell moves to CNCF

NVIDIA has donated OpenShell, its open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous AI agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The project will be governed by the community as a CNCF Sandbox project.

OpenShell applies deterministic controls to agent activity, letting teams enforce policies as agents use tools, access inference services and execute workloads. Organizations can connect their own compute, inference providers and monitoring tools. According to NVIDIA, hundreds of organizations have used the project and it has received tens of thousands of contributions in less than a year since launch.

Running agents at scale

NVIDIA is also contributing to Agent Substrate, a Google-originated framework accepted into the CNCF Sandbox that aims to operate long-running agent workloads at scale on Kubernetes. It preserves agent environments between tasks while releasing compute when agents are idle.

NVIDIA is making Agent Substrate work with its Dynamo inference stack and KAI Scheduler for shared cluster resource allocation. The two companies are also collaborating on an integration between OpenShell and Agent Substrate.

New components for the DSX AI Factory Platform

NVIDIA added three new open source components to its DSX AI Factory Platform: NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine, NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes and NVIDIA Snapshot. The tools are designed to help teams deploy, manage and scale GPU infrastructure on Kubernetes.