NVIDIA open-sources NVKE and NVKR for managed Kubernetes on GPU infrastructure
HowDevelop · x · 2026-11-11
NVIDIA announced two open-source projects under its DSX AI Factory platform for building and operating managed Kubernetes services on GPU infrastructure:
- NVKE (NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine): the control plane for managed Kubernetes, provisioning clusters via a REST API and controllers on a management cluster.
- NVKR (NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes): builds reproducible, version-pinned node images, container images, and packages; AI factories publish validated release sets so customers never handle OS images directly.
The management plane is deployed with nvkectl, which bootstraps a seed cluster, requests bare-metal machines via CAPNICo/NICo, then creates customer workload clusters. Firmus and SK Telecom are integrating it into their AI factories, with Mirantis, Rafay, Spectro Cloud, vCluster and others incorporating components. Both are Apache 2.0, in public preview, and not yet production-ready.
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