Mirantis Delivers Day-Zero Support for NVIDIA Architectures, Optimizing AI Data Factory Lifecycle Management
Mirantis has announced native Day-Zero support for current NVIDIA architectures, delivering a solution that optimizes hardware lifecycle management for AI data factories . Through its k0rdent AI platform, the company is providing integrated support for NVIDIA's current accelerated computing platforms while also offering day-zero readiness for future architectures like NVIDIA Vera Rubin, enabling operators to deploy with highest performance per watt and lowest token cost .
The announcement builds on Mirantis's previous integrations with the NVIDIA Infra Controller (NICo) and NVIDIA DSX OS, the open-source, modular operating platform for AI factories introduced as part of the NVIDIA DSX platform . The integration helps organizations accelerate the deployment and operation of standardized AI factories while reducing complexity across large-scale computing infrastructure . This approach is particularly critical for neocloud providers and enterprise AI infrastructure teams making long-horizon purchasing decisions .
At the foundation of this capability is Mirantis's full integration of NVIDIA NICo as the primary provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle layer for k0rdent AI . NICo automates bare-metal hardware discovery, firmware validation, NVIDIA BlueField DPU provisioning through NVIDIA DOCA, network isolation, tenant sanitization, and secure lifecycle automation for multi-tenant AI environments . While these capabilities exist in open source, operationalizing them at scale requires significant engineering investment, and Mirantis has integrated NICo into k0rdent AI as a fully supported, validated, production-ready platform .
Unlike traditional infrastructure platforms, Mirantis k0rdent AI enables continuous architecture readiness, allowing operators deploying on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell today to move forward to NVIDIA Vera Rubin and beyond without redesigning infrastructure stacks, changing operational models, or rebuilding provisioning workflows . This aligns directly to NVIDIA's accelerated computing roadmap, ensuring operators can deploy with optimized performance and efficiency .
Mirantis is not simply integrating NICo downstream but is actively helping shape the project upstream as a primary open source infrastructure contributor to NICo, working closely with NVIDIA to define how AI datacenter provisioning evolves across future accelerated computing platforms . Additionally, Mirantis is an inaugural partner for NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready, a validation initiative that qualifies and validates AI infrastructure software for deployment on AI clouds, giving k0rdent AI customers earlier access to innovation, tighter hardware alignment, and faster operational readiness .
The company's Metal-to-Model approach streamlines operations from hardware to production models in days rather than months . According to Kevin Kamel, vice president of product management at Mirantis, "AI infrastructure is now a multi-generation investment strategy with AI factories representing a fundamental shift in how infrastructure is designed and operated. The combination of k0rdent AI and NVIDIA delivers lifecycle automation for a fully integrated, enterprise-ready platform that is future-proofed to deliver AI factories so that users can take advantage of NVIDIA's latest hardware technologies without disruption"
