# Bad Influence story: NVIDIA releases NVKE and NVKR open-source Kubernetes projects for GPU infrastructure

Active · 2 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-10 10:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/07afadcc-4bd5-472f-a903-1cb70f9cac14

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Latest update (11-10 11:00): NVIDIA donates OpenShell agent runtime to CNCF and adds Kubernetes AI infrastructure tools

Overview: NVIDIA announces two open-source projects, NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine (NVKE) and NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes (NVKR), for building and operating managed Kubernetes services on GPU infrastructure. Both are in public preview. NVIDIA says the projects let AI Factory customers consume GPU capacity through the Kubernetes APIs and tools they already use.

A later NVIDIA post adds NVIDIA Snapshot, an open-source component that restores checkpointed inference replicas in seconds, and says NVKE and NVKR provide open-source building blocks for managed Kubernetes on GPU infrastructure. Crusoe reports that using Snapshot cut its GLM-5.3 workload readiness from about eight minutes to 31 seconds. The sources are NVIDIA's own blog posts, so these claims are NVIDIA's account of its projects and Crusoe's account of its results.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-10 11:00 · NVIDIA Blog (from the company) · [NVIDIA donates OpenShell agent runtime to CNCF and adds Kubernetes AI infrastructure tools](https://badinfluence.news/items/n20949j83n75bsx8lxr1zvtqj)
2. 11-10 10:00 · NVIDIA Technical Blog (from the company) · [NVIDIA launches NVKE and NVKR open-source Kubernetes projects for GPU infrastructure](https://badinfluence.news/items/gt3arc1d2xwxkvwxzw3vh9zlz)
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