Google Donates Agent Substrate, gVisor, and OpenRL to CNCF; Agent Substrate 1.0 GA on GKE
On 2026-11-05 Google Cloud announced donating Agent Substrate, gVisor, and OpenRL to the CNCF (Sandbox accepted) and that Agent Substrate reached 1.0 with Agent Substrate on GKE generally available. Vendor claim: idle agents snapshot and resume on any ready Worker in under 500ms at about 10x container density.
Key Takeaways
- Official: @GoogleOSS 2026-11-05 17:05 UTC; Google Cloud blog; VP Drew Bradstock
- Donation: Agent Substrate, gVisor, and OpenRL enter CNCF Sandbox; gVisor on a path toward Incubation
- GA: Agent Substrate 1.0 / Agent Substrate on GKE; managed or self-host on any Kubernetes
- Vendor figures: resume <500ms, ~10x density, >500 suspend/resume per second; microVM or gVisor
- Entry points: ate.dev / gvisor.dev / openrl.dev