The upgrade is built upon 25 years of open-source leadership experience in the fields of application delivery, security, and Kubernetes networking.
Key Points
- HAProxy Technologies has been upgraded to CNCF Platinum Member, further deepening their nearly decade-long collaboration with that foundation.
- HAProxy Technologies maintains open-source projects such as HAProxy Data Plane API, HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and HAProxy Unified Gateway. These projects bring Kubernetes native automation capabilities to application traffic routing.
- The HAProxy open-source load balancer, created over 25 years ago by the chief developer Willy Tarreau, is the core of HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller that provides support for the workloads of AI.
Salt Lake City, November 10, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Cloud Native Computing Foundation ® ( CNCF ®), committed to building a sustainable ecosystem for cloud-native software, today announced that it has upgraded its CNCF members to Platinum status, further increasing its investment in the open-source ecosystem that supports the delivery of reliable applications in cloud-native environments.
As various organizations put the AI workloads into production, they need infrastructure that can reliably route requests, enforce security policies, and provide seamless service connections between Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments. The upgrade to Platinum membership for HAProxy Technologies reflects their long-term commitment to open-source traffic management, as well as the collaborative spirit required to meet these challenges.
“It took HAProxy 25 years to develop solutions for reliably routing and protecting traffic in large-scale scenarios, which is precisely a major requirement for the current AI infrastructure,” said Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of CNCF. “Their platinum-level upgrade reflects their deep commitment to this community over the years. This experience is particularly important now as organizations are facing significant network transformations while also dealing with a new wave of AI traffic.”
The platinum upgrade of HAProxy Technologies reflects its nearly decade-long collaboration with CNCF. During this period, the company has continuously deepened its role within the community. This history is built upon an even longer record of open-source development: HAProxy has been the core load balancer of the company's work, created by Willy Tarreau over 25 years ago, who still serves as the chief developer to this day. The same open-source philosophy extends to HAProxy Data Plane API and HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller; both projects are maintained in an open-source manner, just like the core load balancer, collectively embodying the continuous, community-oriented maintenance model that is familiar to the most active members of CNCF.
This history is also influencing the response of broader communities to the current transformation of Kubernetes: the shift from Ingress NGINX to the newer Gateway API standards. At the 2026 North American KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference, HAProxy Technologies announced the launch of HAProxy Unified Gateway 1.1, an open-source project designed to support organizations in completing this migration, while also supporting Gateway API and Ingress during the transition period.
"HAProxy has been an open-source project since 2001, and the code that has undergone community review and practical testing is the core of our enterprise platform HAProxy One," said Tim Bertrand, the president of HAProxy Technologies. "Our goal is to enable teams to manage traffic in their own way, whether they are operating large-scale sovereign AI factories or small home laboratories; open-source accessibility can truly make a difference in these scenarios. The platinum membership status deepens our commitment to openness and transparency, which is precisely the principle that HAProxy and its community have upheld for the past quarter of a century."
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HAProxy Technologies Activities at the 2026 North American KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Conference
HAProxy Technologies is the diamond sponsor for 2026 North America's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. The conference will be held from November 9th to 12th in Salt Lake City, and the company will be exhibiting at booth number 124. Vice President of Architecture, Andjelko Iharos, will deliver a keynote speech on November 11th titled " Sovereign AI Starts at the Traffic Layer". Solution Engineering Director Jakub Suchy and Software Engineer Helene Durand will present " Universal Mesh: One Model for Ingress Gateway API and Multi-Cloud" in the demonstration theater.
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud-native computing enables organizations to build and run scalable applications in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds, leveraging open-source software stacks. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts key components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together top industry developers, end-users, and suppliers, and hosts the world's largest open-source developer conference. CNCF has nearly 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, and is part of the non-profit organization Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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