Mirantis adds support for NVIDIA's NCX Infra Controller to provide software-defined AI infrastructure management built on open-source foundations.

Mirantis announced support for the NVIDIA NCX Infra Controller at KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, an open-source technology to build next-generation AI cloud platforms. The announcement includes progress with an ecosystem of partners delivering an open, composable infrastructure platform based on k0rdent, purpose-built to support AI workloads. For more than a decade, Mirantis has been at the forefront of open source private cloud innovation, helping shape and scale production deployments of OpenStack and Kubernetes for some of the world's largest enterprises and service providers. As cloud infrastructure evolves from virtualization-first architectures to AI-native platforms, Mirantis is applying its deep open source expertise to lead the next transformation by collaborating closely with industry partners and contributing to community-driven technologies like k0rdent, Kubernetes, and OpenStack.

With its k0rdent AI, Mirantis transforms NVIDIA's open AI infrastructure building blocks into production-ready, multi-tenant cloud platforms delivering a validated "Metal-to-Model" stack for enterprise AI factories. k0rdent AI provides a unified control plane that orchestrates the entire stack across the full NVIDIA reference architecture portfolio from NVIDIA Ampere, NVIDIA Hopper, and NVIDIA Blackwell architectures to NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, NVIDIA NVLink scale-up networking, and NVIDIA DGX, NVIDIA HGX, and NVIDIA MGX platforms. As NVIDIA open-sources major components of its AI cloud stack, Mirantis is evaluating and adopting components that strengthen k0rdent AI and validating the full platform against NVIDIA's standards through its AI Cloud Ready Initiative. Mirantis is a contributor to the NVIDIA NCX Infra Controller open source project.

Mirantis partnered with Netris on an integration that automates Kubernetes cluster delivery and data center networking for AI workloads, eliminating two of the biggest operational bottlenecks: the lack of a standardized path to cluster deployment and the manual, fragmented network provisioning processes that slow infrastructure rollout. With Mirantis' composable infrastructure approach, users can select validated networking technologies that meet their performance and operational requirements, and networking becomes part of Kubernetes cluster delivery itself, not bolted on later. Mirantis also partnered with Supermicro on an integration that automates operations for sovereign AI and hybrid GPU cloud environments, eliminating manual provisioning workflows so that Supermicro nodes are automatically discovered and provisioned as Kubernetes infrastructure. Additionally, Mirantis and VAST Data have aligned efforts to bring high-performance data services into k0rdent AI, helping to simplify operations by eliminating one-off integration work while enabling AI infrastructure to scale faster.

Through all of this work, Mirantis and its partners aim to standardize AI infrastructure designs, including NVIDIA-led reference architectures that define how compute, networking, and storage are composed for large-scale GPU environments. Mirantis will showcase how k0rdent can fully automate AI cloud services at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam from March 23-26, with live demonstrations at booth 492. Mirantis delivers the fastest path to profitable, scalable GPU cloud infrastructure for neoclouds and enterprise AI factories, with full-stack AI infrastructure technology that removes complexity and streamlines operations across the AI lifecycle, from Metal-to-Model. Through k0rdent AI and strategic partnerships, Mirantis enables organizations to transform GPU cloud economics with production-grade multi-tenancy, intelligent workload orchestration, and automated operations that maximize utilization and profitability.