Modal joins the ranks of gVisor maintainers
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Modal announced it is joining the ranks of gVisor maintainers, becoming one of three companies—alongside Ant Group and Tines—that have committed to joining as maintainers, while OpenAI, Tencent, and NVIDIA continue to contribute. Modal says it runs 40 million containers per day. The backdrop is that at KubeCon in Salt Lake City, Google donated gVisor, along with its name and trademark, to the CNCF, and the project shifted to a maintainer-led governance model. Modal's Functions and Sandbox (runtime="gvisor") already run on gVisor, and Modal says a related feature will soon launch on the platform as an experimental feature.
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Google is donating gVisor, including its name and trademarks, to the CNCF, and the project is moving to a maintainer-led governance model; Modal is one of three companies, alongside Ant Group and Tines, committing to join gVisor's maintainers, with OpenAI, Tencent and NVIDIA continuing their contributions. Modal says it has run gVisor as its major container runtime since the beginning, launching upwards of 40 million gVisor containers a day for GPU inference, multi-node training, AI coding agents and sandboxes, and has contributed upstream since 2023. The post details upstreamed work including nvproxy GPU support, an rdmaproxy device proxy for RDMA, snapshot/restore, and filesystem and memory performance improvements, and outlines future plans such as multi-GPU memory snapshots and GPUDirect Storage.
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