SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2026 — The Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project, a community-driven initiative focused on creating a standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on DPU/IPU-Like (Data Processing Units)/(Infrastructure Processing Unit) technologies, has announced its first coordinated release, OPI Abstraction v0.1.0, marking an important technical milestone in making DPU/IPU infrastructure easier to consume, integrate, and scale. With this release, OPI helps break down barriers to DPU/IPU adoption, including fragmentation across proprietary SDKs, toolchains, APIs and operational models.
In conjunction with the release, OPI issued its first white paper, Accelerating the AI Era: The Critical Role of Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) in Scaling DPU and IPU Ecosystems. The publication explores applications in edge computing, private cloud, data centers, high-performance networking, storage disaggregation, and zero-trust security. By transforming devices into standardized infrastructure elements, OPI reduces operational complexity, eliminates duplicated validation efforts and mitigates potential vendor lock-in.
“AI is driving a fundamental shift in how organizations think about the infrastructure layer,” said Arpit Joshipura, GM and SVP, Networking, Edge and IoT at the Linux Foundation. “DPUs and IPUs offer powerful new capabilities for offload, acceleration, security, and lifecycle management, but the ecosystem needs open APIs and repeatable deployment patterns to scale. OPI’s new release and the first official OPI ‘Blueprint’ are important steps toward making programmable infrastructure more open, interoperable, and practical for real-world adoption.”
The Abstraction release establishes a vendor neutral, hardware-agnostic API layer designed to let workloads, orchestrators, and platforms program compliant DPUs without requiring hardware-specific code. OPI’s immediate focus is bridging the gap to deployment through open APIs, seamless Kubernetes integration, and ready-to-use end-user blueprints. Spanning 26 participating repositories covering APIs, bridges, tooling, Kubernetes integrations, provisioning, and observability, the release establishes a shared integration layer for programmable infrastructure. This release also introduces OPI Blueprints as a deployment-focused framework for translating open infrastructure capabilities into repeatable, production-grade solutions. The first official Blueprint, Kubernetes Network Function Offload, brings together F5/NGINX, Red Hat, and others around essential hardware, utilizing Red Hat OpenShift for orchestration and F5 NGINX as the application delivery controller.
OPI is hosting its second Summit on DPU/IPUs on October 15, 2026 at The Tech Interactive in San Jose, CA. The OPI Summit will be hosted alongside the OCP Global Summit and is open to anyone involved in the design, development, integration, marketing, use, or support of DPU/IPUs, or related hardware, software, or services.
To learn more about the Open Programmable Infrastructure Project, please visit https://opiproject.org.
About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
Source: Linux Foundation
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