Why Nvidia gave OpenShell to the CNCF
Nvidia this week donated OpenShell, its open-source runtime for securing and governing AI agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The post Why Nvidia gave OpenShell to the CNCF appeared first on The New Stack .
Nvidia has donated its open-source runtime for securing and governing AI agents, OpenShell, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The teams that run OpenShell in production already work with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects, according to Ali Golshan, Nvidia's senior director of AI software. OpenShell, launched by Nvidia at its GTC conference in March, officially joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project in late September.
The CNCF currently hosts 262 projects, including 155 at the Sandbox level. While the CNCF's parent organization, the Linux Foundation, runs the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with additional agent-related projects, Nvidia chose the CNCF due to its focus on securing and creating trust around AI, which it views as foundational infrastructure.
OpenShell enforces policies on the resources an agent can access, adopting Cedar, another CNCF project, as its policy language. The platform team in OpenShell runs an agent inside a sandbox and enforces policies on the resources it can access. Nvidia's engineers will continue working on the core of OpenShell, while the CNCF provides the broader ecosystem and governance for the project.
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