Press release · November 10, 2026 · globenewswire.com
HAProxy Technologies moves to CNCF Platinum membership
Summary
HAProxy Technologies has moved to Platinum membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which places the company on the CNCF Governing Board. The change expands its role in shaping the foundation's technical direction.
The company brings more than 25 years of experience in delivering scalable, secure application delivery across containerized, cloud, and on-premises environments. Its platform serves global enterprises, startups, and leading cloud providers that run modern applications, APIs, and AI services. The company also maintains the HAProxy open source load balancer, which forms the core of its enterprise platform.
HAProxy One, the company's application delivery and security platform, handles external load balancing, multi-cluster routing, and direct-to-pod delivery. It supports Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic and controls Ingress and Gateway API resources inside Kubernetes clusters. Integrated DDoS protection, rate limiting, bot management, and a web application firewall (WAF) are included, and operators administer the platform through a central control plane called HAProxy Fusion.
The company maintains several open source projects, including the HAProxy Data Plane API, HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and HAProxy Unified Gateway. It is a Diamond sponsor of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, held November 10 to 12 in Salt Lake City, where it will run live demos at booth #124 covering external load balancing, multi-cluster routing, and sovereign AI traffic management.
“HAProxy's upgrade to Platinum membership reflects how central application delivery and security have become to the cloud native stack,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF. “Their continued work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress, Gateway API, and control plane / data plane tooling strengthens projects the whole community depends on, and brings deep experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications.”
Going forward, the company described plans to deepen collaboration with other contributors and to advance the performance, reliability, and security of Kubernetes networking.
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