On the acquisition, our community commitments, and what we believe about open infrastructure
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The news is out, Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IREN. I want to address the open source community about what this means, especially on the key questions of where we stand in regards to our commitment to the open source community, open standards based infrastructure, the projects we continue to contribute to, and for the teams involved, both within Mirantis and those that have partnered and supported us over the years.
What’s happening
Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IREN. You can read the full announcement here: https://iren.com/investors/news
Our commitments to the community
Mirantis has invested in the open source community, because we believe that through community participation we are jointly able to build better software solutions. This in turn means better outcomes for all our customers and the community as a whole.
Here I want to be very clear, and remove ambiguity.
Our contributions to k0rdent, Kubernetes, k0s, OpenStack and more continue. The maintainers and contributors working on those projects stay in place. k0rdent remains open source. k0s will continue to be curated. Our participation in community governance, our upstream contributions, and our commitment to open standards are not transitional — they are structural to how we build product and how we engage with the ecosystem. That does not change.
On open standards and why they matter to this market
There is a broader point worth making here, and it’s one we’ve held for a long time: open, standards-based solutions for infrastructure accelerates market adoption. This isn’t just philosophical — it’s a pattern that I and my colleagues have seen many times during our careers. When infrastructure becomes easier to adopt, more portable, and less dependent on any single vendor’s decisions, more organisations adopt it. Demand expands rather than consolidates. Jevons Paradox, applied to software ecosystems.
At Mirantis we believe the AI infrastructure market is in exactly that position right now. Proprietary stacks are proliferating,organisations depending on them are accruing technical and operational debt that will constrain them over time. An open, standards-based approach to AI infrastructure — one that works across hardware, across providers, and across enterprise environments — serves the whole industry better, by
lowering barriers to adoption
reducing or removing lock-in and single vendor dependencies
accelerating new technology integration
Creating the necessary conditions for the market to grow faster than it would otherwise.
IREN shares this conviction — that openness accelerates industry adoption and raises all boats — is the foundation of the strategic alignment between our two organisations. It is why the governance structure of the combined entity is designed to preserve Mirantis’s independence and its ability to serve the whole market, not just one participant in it.
On k0rdent AI
k0rdent AI is built on an open source foundation. That foundation gives it the portability, the community scrutiny, and the ecosystem integrations that a proprietary alternative cannot match. We intend to continue building it that way. Greater investment behind us means more engineering capacity, faster iteration, and deeper community engagement — not a pivot away from the model that has defined Mirantis from the start.
What I’d ask of you
Watch what we do. Judge us on our contributions, our roadmap transparency, and our behaviour in the community over the coming months and years. The proof of any commitment like this is in the work, and I am confident the work will speak for itself.
If you have questions, concerns, or perspectives to share, I want to hear them. Reach out to me directly at shaun.omeara@mirantis.com, or talk to me or any of my team at the community events and in the community forums..
We’re not going anywhere. We’re just getting started.
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