Google donates gVisor to CNCF; Modal joins as maintainer
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Google is donating gVisor, including its name and trademarks, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and the container sandbox project is moving to a maintainer-led governance model. The announcement was made at KubeCon in Salt Lake City. Modal is one of three companies joining gVisor's maintainers, alongside Ant Group and Tines; OpenAI, Tencent and NVIDIA are continuing their contributions. Modal says it launches upwards of 40 million gVisor containers a day and has contributed upstream since 2023, including nvproxy GPU support, an RDMA device proxy called rdmaproxy, and tmpfs and memory-allocator optimizations. It says it is working on multi-GPU memory snapshots and GPUDirect Storage support for gVisor.
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Modal is one of three companies, alongside Ant Group and Tines, joining gVisor's maintainers as Google donates the project and its trademarks to CNCF under a maintainer-led governance model. Modal says it launches upwards of 40 million gVisor containers a day and has contributed upstream since 2023, including nvproxy GPU support, an RDMA device proxy called rdmaproxy, and tmpfs and memory-allocator optimizations. The company says it is working on multi-GPU memory snapshots and GPUDirect Storage support for gVisor.
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