CNCF Welcomes Twelve New Members as Organizations Look to Run AI Agents on Open, Sovereign Infrastructure

Organizations join the cloud native community to strengthen security, visibility, and control for production AI

Key Highlights

• CNCF welcomes 12 new Silver members, expanding its community across sovereign cloud, AI agent infrastructure, security and financial services.
• As organizations move AI agents into production, new members bring expertise in open infrastructure that supports data sovereignty, operational visibility, security and control.
• Enterprises, developers and platform teams gain access to a broader ecosystem of cloud native technologies and expertise to securely build, deploy and manage AI workloads across environments.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the addition of twelve new Silver members, reinforcing the community's focus on open, vendor-neutral infrastructure for running AI agents in production. This cohort, spanning sovereign cloud and hosting, AI agent infrastructure, container security, and financial services, broadens the ecosystem of organizations building and operating production AI.

"Deploying AI agents at scale requires the same core guarantees the cloud native ecosystem has spent a decade building: choice, portability, and the ability to control your own infrastructure," said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF. "From sovereign cloud operators to specialized security and telemetry maintainers, this group of new silver members highlights how the community is expanding to support complex, autonomous AI workloads everywhere."

As organizations move AI agents from pilot to production, platform teams face rising demands for data control, operational visibility, and software supply chain trust. CNCF's newest members reflect that shift, bringing domain expertise and technology built to run agentic workloads on open, portable infrastructure.

New Silver Members

The following organizations have recently joined CNCF as Silver Members:

• Centron is a German cloud provider on a mission to make the cloud as simple and accessible as possible – for everyone. Its cloud platform offers managed Kubernetes, virtual machines, S3 object storage, and GPU compute, operated entirely from centron's own ISO 27001- and C5-certified, GDPR-compliant data center in Germany.
• CIQ is the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux and a leading provider of Enterprise Linux infrastructure. CIQ delivers secure, performant software infrastructure for the full range of modern workloads. Global enterprises, government agencies, research institutions and supercomputing centers trust CIQ to run their most advanced workloads in production, from mission-critical environments to the systems behind major scientific and AI breakthroughs. CIQ's products include the Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC Pro) family of operating systems, CIQ Stratum, an open source Kubernetes engine, Ascender Pro for IT automation, Fuzzball job-based container orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Apptainer, the container system built for high-performance computing, with Apptainer Pro coming soon.
• Cloudpunks GmbH is a cloud native IT consultancy from Germany, specializing in Kubernetes platform engineering, DevOps automation, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure — covering both public cloud and on-premises environments. As a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) and certified AWS and Microsoft Azure partner with Kubestronaut-certified engineers, cloudpunks works embedded in customer teams to build and operate cloud native platforms, not just advise from the sideline.
• Emphere fixes vulnerabilities in container images at the source, inside the Dockerfiles teams already maintain. Based in Seattle, the company works to close the gap between CVE disclosure and a deployed fix across base OS packages, language runtimes, and open source libraries.
• FluidCloud Limited is a Cloud Cloning platform that uses proprietary Large Language Model to enable discovery, migration, and operations of entire cloud infrastructure in minutes. FluidCloud's multi-cloud DevOps platform works across AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google Cloud, VMware, Nutanix, Vultr, and OVH to create a universally portable graph of the entire infrastructure, powering instant disaster recovery, resiliency, migration, and multi-cloud interoperability.
• ImageEngine Kube is a cloud native, self-hosted image optimization engine that deploys to your Kubernetes cluster via a signed Helm chart. Working alongside your existing CDN, it delivers device-aware resizing, AVIF/WebP/JPEG XL conversion, and intelligent compression—giving platform teams faster image delivery, full control over their data, security auditability, and predictable costs.
• Ilert GmbH is an incident management, on-call alerting, and status page platform with a built-in AI SRE, made and hosted in Germany.
• Paper Compute is an open intelligence platform for teams building AI agents. Its agent gateway handles model routing, inference policy, and zero-instrumentation telemetry with tapes, deployed in your own cloud.
• Radar is an open source Kubernetes interface for humans and AI agents that shows how everything in a live cluster connects, not just what's in it. Teams use it through a UI built for people and an MCP server built for agents, so both can understand a cluster the way it actually works.
• Open-Xchange AG (OX) is the world's largest independent email provider, and its portfolio includes ubiquitous open source software like Dovecot and PowerDNS, alongside OX App Suite and OX Cloud. OX's philosophy is clear: keep the internet free, open, and competitive. OX achieves this by building innovative, secure, and open solutions that empower its community, partners, and customers to offer trusted alternatives to global hyperscalers.
• Varnish Software AB accelerates and secures the delivery of content, data, and software, from web and streaming traffic to the packages and container images that power software supply chains.

About the Newest Silver End User Member

CNCF also welcomes its newest Silver End User Member, an organization that actively uses cloud native technologies to drive digital transformation:

• Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) is one of Germany's leading digital banks, serving millions of customers as well as businesses and institutions in future-oriented industries across the country.

CNCF Silver Members receive various benefits valued at over $300,000 USD, including training and educational subscriptions, event sponsorship discounts, access to The Linux Foundation's legal resources, opportunities to join project working groups, and more.

To learn more about becoming a Silver Member, visit: https://www.cncf.io/about/join/silver

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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