CNCF Welcomes HAProxy Technologies as a Platinum Member to Advance Open Source Kubernetes Networking

Upgrade builds on 25 years of open source leadership in application delivery, security, and Kubernetes networking

Key Highlights

• HAProxy Technologies has upgraded to a CNCF Platinum membership, deepening almost a decade of involvement with the foundation.
• HAProxy Technologies maintains the HAProxy Data Plane API, HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and HAProxy Unified Gateway, open source projects that bring Kubernetes-native automation to application traffic routing.
• The HAProxy open source load balancer, created more than 25 years ago by lead developer Willy Tarreau, is the core that powers the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller for AI workloads.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that HAProxy Technologies has upgraded its CNCF membership to Platinum, deepening its investment in the open source ecosystem supporting reliable application delivery across cloud native environments.

As organizations bring AI workloads into production, they need infrastructure that routes requests reliably, enforces security policies, and connects services across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments seamlessly. HAProxy Technologies' Platinum membership reflects its long-term commitment to open source traffic management and the collaboration needed to address these challenges.

"HAProxy has spent 25 years solving how to route and secure traffic reliably at scale, a major need for AI infrastructure now," said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF. "Their Platinum upgrade reflects the deep investment they have made in this community for years. That experience matters now, as organizations navigate a major networking transition alongside a new wave of AI traffic."

HAProxy Technologies' Platinum upgrade reflects almost a decade of involvement with CNCF, during which the company has continually deepened its role in the community. That history sits on top of a much longer open source record: HAProxy, the load balancer at the center of the company's work, was created more than 25 years ago by Willy Tarreau, who remains its lead developer today. That same open source ethos extends to the HAProxy Data Plane API and HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, both maintained in the open alongside the core load balancer, and together reflecting the kind of sustained, community-facing maintainership CNCF's most engaged members are well-known for.

That history is also informing how the broader community approaches a live transition already underway across Kubernetes: the shift away from Ingress NGINX and toward the newer Gateway API standard. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, HAProxy Technologies announced HAProxy Unified Gateway 1.1, an open source project built to support organizations making that move, with support for both Gateway API and Ingress during the transition.

"HAProxy has been open source since 2001, and that community-reviewed, battle-tested code is the core of our enterprise platform, HAProxy One," said Tim Bertrand, President of HAProxy Technologies. "Our goal is to give teams the power and flexibility to manage traffic their way, whether they're running massive sovereign AI factories or small home labs, where the accessibility of open source makes a real difference. Platinum membership deepens our commitment to the openness and transparency that have defined HAProxy and our community for a quarter century."

To learn more about becoming a CNCF member, visit https://www.cncf.io/about/join/.

HAProxy Technologies at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
HAProxy Technologies is a Diamond sponsor of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, held November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, and exhibits at booth #124. Andjelko Iharos, VP of Architecture, delivers a keynote, "Sovereign AI Starts at the Traffic Layer," on November 11. Jakub Suchy, Director of Solutions Engineering, and Helene Durand, Software Engineer, present "Universal Mesh: One Model for Ingress, Gateway API, and Multi-Cloud" in the demo theatre.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by nearly 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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