NVIDIA Donates OpenShell Agent Security Runtime to CNCF

NVIDIA contributes AI agent governance and Kubernetes infrastructure tools to open source at KubeCon.

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NVIDIA announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon that it is contributing OpenShell, a runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Sandbox project. The company also announced contributions to Agent Substrate, a Google-originated CNCF Sandbox framework for running long-running agent workloads on Kubernetes. NVIDIA says hundreds of organizations have deployed OpenShell since its launch. Additionally, NVIDIA introduced three new open source components for its DSX AI Factory Platform: NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine and NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes, now in public preview, and NVIDIA Snapshot, which NVIDIA claims can restore inference replicas in seconds. Design partner Crusoe reported reducing workload readiness time from roughly eight minutes to 31 seconds using Snapshot on HGX B300 systems.

Source: NVIDIA News. Original announcement: November 10, 2026.