# NVIDIA donates OpenShell agent runtime to CNCF and adds Kubernetes AI infrastructure tools

> Original title: NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Donation and New AI Infrastructure

- Source: NVIDIA Blog
- Published: 2026-11-10T16:00:03.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/n20949j83n75bsx8lxr1zvtqj
- Original: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-source-openshell-infrastructure/

## Summary

NVIDIA is contributing OpenShell, an open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a CNCF Sandbox project. It also announces NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine and NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes, now in public preview, plus NVIDIA Snapshot, an open source component that restores checkpointed inference replicas in seconds. Crusoe reported cutting its GLM-5.3 workload readiness from about eight minutes to 31 seconds using Snapshot.