“Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board
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OpenClaw, an AI agent platform, is making strides towards becoming a serious business tool with the launch of OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE). Created by Peter Steinberger in late 2025, OpenClaw gained popularity within a year, garnering over 100,000 GitHub stars. Following OpenAI's hiring of Steinberger in February, the project underwent significant enhancements, focusing on security, new agent harness options, and the establishment of the OpenClaw Foundation.
OpenClaw Enterprise aims to provide an open-source, vendor-neutral platform for managing agents, addressing the issue of managing permissions and actions granted to persistent agents across company systems. Kevin Lin, a member of technical staff at OpenAI, acknowledges that many organizations view agent platforms as too difficult to centrally police, leading to a default stance of prohibition.
OpenClaw Enterprise is currently in development, with the OpenClaw Control Plane (OCC) at its core. OCC enables administrators to deploy agents, manage isolated namespaces, configure credentials, set permissions, and track changes. The agent activity, including message receiving, harness handling, model calls, and tool execution, occurs separately through gateways and harnesses.
OCE is designed for environments where multiple agents, users, and teams may share the same infrastructure, with controls around access and isolation.
The project, built on the Kubernetes framework, provides a common layer for managing agents across different environments. OpenClaw Enterprise will always be free for organizations to use, as it is deployed within their own infrastructure. The code is available on GitHub, with a guide for local development or internal deployment. Red Hat and Nvidia have contributed to OCE's development, and OpenAI and Red Hat are testing it internally.
Red Hat sees the development of enterprise agents following a similar pattern to the transition from proprietary Unix systems to Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. Joe Fernandes, VP and general manager of Red Hat's AI business unit, believes that Red Hat's experience in bringing earlier technologies to enterprise environments can be applied to this next generation of software.
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