--- title: “Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands... description: OpenClaw, the self-hosted AI agent project created by Peter Steinberger that grew to over 100,000 GitHub stars before OpenAI hired him, has launched OpenClaw... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/think-of-it-as-kubernetes-for-agents-openclaw-lands-in-the-enterprise-with-nvidia-and-red-hat-on--q2bsybusy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: “Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board | daily.dev og:description: OpenClaw, the self-hosted AI agent project created by Peter Steinberger that grew to over 100,000 GitHub stars before OpenAI hired him, has launched OpenClaw... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/think-of-it-as-kubernetes-for-agents-openclaw-lands-in-the-enterprise-with-nvidia-and-red-hat-on--q2bsybusy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/q2BsyBUSy.png og:image:alt: “Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # “Think of it as Kubernetes for agents”: OpenClaw lands in the enterprise with Nvidia and Red Hat on board **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenClaw, the self-hosted AI agent project created by Peter Steinberger that grew to over 100,000 GitHub stars before OpenAI hired him, has launched OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE), an open-source control plane for governing persistent agents in enterprise environments. Backed by Nvidia, Red Hat, and OpenAI, OCE addresses enterprise IT's default stance of banning agent platforms by providing centralized deployment, namespace isolation, permission management, and audit logging. It's explicitly framed as "Kubernetes for agents," runs on Kubernetes infrastructure, and is still pre-1.0 with several components unfinished, including external gateway admission and workload authentication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is OpenClaw Enterprise and how does it help companies manage AI agents? OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) is an open-source, vendor-neutral control plane for deploying and governing persistent AI agents inside organizations. Its OpenClaw Control Plane lets administrators deploy agents into isolated namespaces, manage credentials and permissions, and audit changes, while separate gateways and harnesses handle messaging, model calls, and tool execution. It runs on Kubernetes and is backed by Nvidia, Red Hat, and OpenAI, with a 1.0 release planned later. _Teams weighing agent governance platforms can track OpenClaw Enterprise's progress toward 1.0 on daily.dev._ ### Is OpenClaw Enterprise ready for production use? No, OpenClaw Enterprise is still pre-1.0 and suitable only for internal pilot projects. Core pieces like the API, console, persistent worker, PostgreSQL backend, and Kubernetes packaging are implemented, but external gateway admission, workload authentication back to the control plane, and some model authentication approaches remain unfinished. The project is being developed openly so organizations and outside developers can inspect and shape it before the formal release. _Anyone piloting early-stage agent infrastructure can follow OpenClaw Enterprise's maturity milestones on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Deploying agents with Red Hat AI: The curious case of OpenClaw](https://daily.dev/posts/deploying-agents-with-red-hat-ai-the-curious-case-of-openclaw-zwalefupq) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Claw-style AI agents are coming to the enterprise. 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