The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced at Open Source Summit Europe that OVHcloud has upgraded to a Platinum Member, extending a decade-plus record of open infrastructure work as cloud native and AI infrastructure converge on vendor-neutral standards. CNCF noted that OVHcloud has built on OpenStack since 2012 and joined the OpenStack Foundation in 2014, contributed an independently developed Kubernetes Operator to the graduated Harbor registry project in 2020 and joined as a maintainer, and in March 2026 had its AI Deploy and Managed Kubernetes Service approved through the CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance Program. Executive director Jonathan Bryce credited that upstream engineering, while founder and CEO Octave Klaba said independence means the freedom to build on open standards and contribute to the technologies a company relies on rather than being locked into one ecosystem. CNCF cited a Gartner forecast that European sovereign cloud spending will reach 12.6 billion dollars in 2026.
OVHcloud upgrades to CNCF Platinum membership
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced at Open Source Summit Europe that OVHcloud has upgraded to a Platinum Member, extending a decade-plus record of open infrastructure work as cloud native and AI infrastructure converge on vendor-neutral standards. CNCF noted that OVHcloud has built on OpenStack since 2012 and joined the OpenStack Foundation in 2014, contributed an independently developed Kubernetes Operator to the graduated Harbor registry project in 2020 and joined as a maintainer, and in March 2026 had its AI Deploy and Managed Kubernetes Service approved through the CNCF Kubernetes AI Conformance Program. Executive director Jonathan Bryce credited that upstream engineering, while founder and CEO Octave Klaba said independence means the freedom to build on open standards and contribute to the technologies a company relies on rather than being locked into one ecosystem. CNCF cited a Gartner forecast that European sovereign cloud spending will reach 12.6 billion dollars in 2026.
Source: CNCF