diff --git a/contrib/Dockerfile.rockylinux8 b/contrib/Dockerfile.rockylinux8
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_TAG
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}:${BASE_IMAGE_TAG}
+
+ARG DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION="3.14"
+ARG ARCH="x86_64"
+ARG UCX_REF="v1.20.x"
+ARG LIBFABRIC_VERSION="v1.21.0"
+ARG HWLOC_VERSION="2.12.2"
+ARG BUILD_TYPE="release"
+ARG URING_TAG="liburing-2.13"
+
+RUN yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools' &&  \
+    dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools && \
+    dnf install -y epel-release && \
+    dnf install -y \
+    boost \
+    boost-devel \
+    clang-devel \
+    gcc-toolset-11 \
+    cmake \
+    dkms \
+    flex \
+    gflags \
+    glibc-headers \
+    gcc-c++ \
+    libaio \
+    libaio-devel \
+    libtool-ltdl \
+    ninja-build \
+    openssl \
+    openssl-devel \
+    protobuf-compiler \
+    protobuf-c-devel \
+    protobuf-devel \
+    libibverbs \
+    libibverbs-devel \
+    rdma-core \
+    rdma-core-devel \
+    libibumad \
+    libibumad-devel \
+    numactl-devel \
+    librdmacm-devel \
+    pciutils-devel \
+    wget \
+    zlib
+
+ENV PATH=/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-11/root/usr/bin:$PATH
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-11/root/usr/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-11/root/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
+
+# Build latest hwloc from source to avoid older RHEL8 API limitations.
+RUN cd /tmp && \
+    HWLOC_SERIES="$(echo ${HWLOC_VERSION} | cut -d. -f1,2)" && \
+    wget -q "https://download.open-mpi.org/release/hwloc/v${HWLOC_SERIES}/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz" && \
+    tar -xzf "hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz" && \
+    cd "hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}" && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-nvml && \
+    make -j"$(nproc)" && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf "/tmp/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}" "/tmp/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+# Build OpenSSL 3.x
+RUN yum install -y perl-IPC-Cmd perl-Test-Simple perl-Data-Dumper
+RUN cd /tmp && \
+    wget -q https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz && \
+    tar -xzf openssl-3.0.16.tar.gz && \
+    cd openssl-3.0.16 && \
+    ./Configure --prefix=/usr/local/openssl3 --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl3 \
+        shared zlib linux-$ARCH && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && \
+    make install_sw && \
+    echo "/usr/local/openssl3/lib64" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openssl3.conf && \
+    echo "/usr/local/openssl3/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openssl3.conf && \
+    ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/openssl-3.0.16*
+
+# Set environment variables to use the new OpenSSL
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/openssl3/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/openssl3/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/openssl3/lib64:/usr/local/openssl3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+ENV OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="/usr/local/openssl3"
+ENV OPENSSL_LIBRARIES="/usr/local/openssl3/lib64:/usr/local/openssl3/lib"
+ENV OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR="/usr/local/openssl3/include"
+
+WORKDIR /workspace
+
+RUN git clone --recurse-submodules -b v1.73.0 --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/grpc/grpc && \
+    cd grpc && \
+    mkdir -p cmake/build && \
+    cd cmake/build && \
+    cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+    -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package ../.. && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && \
+    make install
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+RUN cd /workspace && \
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/etcd-cpp-apiv3/etcd-cpp-apiv3.git && \
+    cd etcd-cpp-apiv3 && \
+    sed -i '/^find_dependency(cpprestsdk)$/d' etcd-cpp-api-config.in.cmake && \
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    cmake .. -DBUILD_ETCD_CORE_ONLY=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DETCD_CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && make install
+
+# The base image libcurl is linked against openssl 1.x, so we need to build from source
+# in order to use openssl 3.x. This is needed to build aws-sdk-cpp.
+RUN wget https://curl.se/download/curl-8.5.0.tar.gz && \
+    tar xzf curl-8.5.0.tar.gz && cd curl-8.5.0 && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr/local/openssl3 --enable-shared && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && make install
+
+RUN git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp.git --branch 1.11.760
+RUN mkdir aws_sdk_build && cd aws_sdk_build && \
+    export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/openssl3/lib64 -L/usr/local/openssl3/lib" && \
+    export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/openssl3/include" && \
+    export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/openssl3/include" && \
+    cmake ../aws-sdk-cpp/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_ONLY="s3;s3-crt" -DENABLE_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+        -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/usr/local/openssl3;/usr/local" \
+        -DCURL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so \
+        -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include \
+        -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF && \
+    make -j${NPROC:-$(nproc)} && make install
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/axboe/liburing.git && \
+     cd liburing && \
+     git checkout $URING_TAG && \
+     ./configure --cc=gcc --cxx=g++ && \
+     make -j library && make liburing.pc && make install && \
+     ldconfig && \
+     cd ..
+
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/nvidia/gusli.git && \
+     cd gusli && \
+     sed -i '/^LFLAGS_ALL =/{/-lrt/ b; s/$/ -lrt/}' Makefile && \
+     make all BUILD_RELEASE=1 BUILD_FOR_UNITEST=0 VERBOSE=1 ALLOW_USE_URING=0 && \
+     cd ..
+
+# Required for Azure SDK
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2.git --branch 2.15 && \
+    cd libxml2 && \
+    cmake -S . -B build \
+        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+        -DLIBXML2_WITH_PYTHON=OFF && \
+    cmake --build build -j"$(nproc)" && \
+    cmake --install build
+
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp.git --branch azure-storage-blobs_12.15.0 && \
+    cd azure-sdk-for-cpp/ && \
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/openssl3/lib64 -L/usr/local/openssl3/lib" && \
+    export CFLAGS="-isystem /usr/local/openssl3/include" && \
+    export CXXFLAGS="-isystem /usr/local/openssl3/include" && \
+    AZURE_SDK_DISABLE_AUTO_VCPKG=1 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DDISABLE_AMQP=ON -DDISABLE_AZURE_CORE_OPENTELEMETRY=ON \
+        -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/usr/local/openssl3;/usr/local" \
+        -DCURL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libcurl.so \
+        -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include \
+        -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF && \
+    cmake --build . --target azure-storage-blobs azure-identity && \
+    cmake --install sdk/core && \
+    cmake --install sdk/storage/azure-storage-common && \
+    cmake --install sdk/storage/azure-storage-blobs && \
+    cmake --install sdk/identity
+
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
+
+ENV RUSTUP_HOME=/usr/local/rustup \
+    CARGO_HOME=/usr/local/cargo \
+    PATH=/usr/local/cargo/bin:$PATH \
+    RUST_VERSION=1.86.0 \
+    RUSTARCH=${ARCH}-unknown-linux-gnu
+
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 "https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/archive/1.28.1/${RUSTARCH}/rustup-init" && \
+    chmod +x rustup-init && \
+    ./rustup-init -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain $RUST_VERSION --default-host ${RUSTARCH} && \
+    case "$ARCH" in \
+        aarch64) RUSTUP_SHA256="c64b33db2c6b9385817ec0e49a84bcfe018ed6e328fe755c3c809580cc70ce7a" ;; \
+        x86_64) RUSTUP_SHA256="a3339fb004c3d0bb9862ba0bce001861fe5cbde9c10d16591eb3f39ee6cd3e7f" ;; \
+        *) echo "Unsupported architecture for Rust: $ARCH" && exit 1 ;; \
+    esac && \
+    echo "$RUSTUP_SHA256 *rustup-init" | sha256sum -c - && \
+    rm rustup-init && \
+    chmod -R a+w $RUSTUP_HOME $CARGO_HOME
+
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/DOCA/DOCA_v3.2.0/host/doca-host-3.2.0-125000_25.10_rhel8.${ARCH}.rpm -O doca-host.rpm && \
+    rpm -i doca-host.rpm && \
+    dnf install -y libnl3-devel && \
+    cd /usr/share/doca-host-3.2.0/repo/Packages/ && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-common-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-rdma-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-verbs-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-gpunetio-*rpm && \
+    # Check that gpunetio development package is installed correctly
+    pkg-config --cflags --libs doca-gpunetio
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+ENV CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda
+
+WORKDIR /workspace
+
+RUN rm -rf /usr/lib/ucx
+RUN rm -rf /opt/hpcx/ucx
+
+RUN cd /workspace && \
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && \
+    cd gdrcopy && \
+    git fetch --tags --depth=1 && \
+    latest_tag=$(git describe --tags "$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)") && \
+    git checkout "$latest_tag" && \
+    cd packages && \
+    CUDA=/usr/local/cuda ./build-rpm-packages.sh && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-kmod-*.el8.noarch.rpm && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-*.el8.$ARCH.rpm && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-devel-*.el8.noarch.rpm
+
+RUN cd /usr/local/src && \
+     git clone https://github.com/openucx/ucx.git && \
+     cd ucx && 			     \
+     git checkout $UCX_REF &&	     \
+     ./autogen.sh && \
+     ./contrib/configure-release-mt  \
+         --enable-shared             \
+         --disable-static            \
+         --disable-doxygen-doc       \
+         --enable-optimizations      \
+         --enable-cma                \
+         --enable-devel-headers      \
+         --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda \
+         --with-verbs                \
+         --with-dm                   \
+         --with-gdrcopy=/usr/local   \
+         --with-efa  &&              \
+     make -j &&                      \
+     make -j install-strip &&        \
+     ldconfig
+
+# Build libfabric from source
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 --timeout=30 --read-timeout=60 \
+    "https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/releases/download/${LIBFABRIC_VERSION}/libfabric-${LIBFABRIC_VERSION#v}.tar.bz2" -O libfabric.tar.bz2 && \
+    tar xjf libfabric.tar.bz2 && rm libfabric.tar.bz2 && \
+    cd libfabric-* && \
+    ./autogen.sh && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
+                --disable-verbs \
+                --disable-psm3 \
+                --disable-opx \
+                --disable-usnic \
+                --disable-rstream \
+                --enable-efa \
+                --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda \
+                --enable-cuda-dlopen \
+                --with-gdrcopy \
+                --enable-gdrcopy-dlopen && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig
+
+# Ensure pkg-config and linker can discover source-installed libs under /usr/local.
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+RUN printf "/usr/local/lib64\n/usr/local/lib\n" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf && ldconfig
+
+# By default, uv downloads python packages to $HOME/.cache/uv and hard links them
+# from the virtual environment. This means that the files reside in /root/.cache/uv,
+# which is not what we want since some systems mount user home dir into /root,
+# in which case the venv is broken when the container is started.
+# Set a custom cache directory inside /workspace to avoid this.
+ENV UV_CACHE_DIR=/workspace/.cache/uv
+RUN mkdir -p $UV_CACHE_DIR
+# Create a new virtual environment
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/workspace/.venv
+RUN rm -rf $VIRTUAL_ENV && uv venv $VIRTUAL_ENV --python $DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION
+# Activate the virtual environment
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+# Install python dependencies
+RUN uv pip install --upgrade meson meson-python pybind11 patchelf pyYAML click setuptools tabulate auditwheel tomlkit
+# Install PyTorch
+RUN export UV_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d .)" && \
+    uv pip install torch torchvision torchaudio
+# Upgrade setuptools to latest version for compatibility with PEP 639 (license format)
+RUN uv pip install --upgrade 'setuptools>=80.9.0'
+# Meson fails to download dependencies without truststore on Rocky Linux 8
+RUN uv pip install truststore
+
+COPY . /workspace/nixl
+WORKDIR /workspace/nixl
+
+RUN rm -rf build && \
+    mkdir build && \
+    meson setup build/ --prefix=/usr/local/nixl --buildtype=$BUILD_TYPE \
+    -Dcudapath_lib="/usr/local/cuda/lib64" \
+    -Dcudapath_inc="/usr/local/cuda/include" && \
+    cd build && \
+    ninja && \
+    ninja install
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/plugins:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ENV NIXL_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/plugins
+
+RUN echo "/usr/local/nixl/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nixl.conf && \
+    echo "/usr/local/nixl/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu/plugins" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nixl.conf && \
+    ldconfig
+
+# Create the wheel
+# No need to specifically add path to libcuda.so here, meson finds the stubs and links them
+ARG WHL_PYTHON_VERSIONS="3.10,3.11,3.12,3.13,3.14"
+ARG WHL_PLATFORM="manylinux_2_28_$ARCH"
+RUN dnf install -y python3.11-devel python3.12-devel
+RUN IFS=',' read -ra PYTHON_VERSIONS <<< "$WHL_PYTHON_VERSIONS" && \
+    export UV_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d .)" && \
+    export UV_INDEX_STRATEGY=unsafe-best-match && \
+    rm -rf dist && mkdir -p dist && \
+    for PYTHON_VERSION in "${PYTHON_VERSIONS[@]}"; do \
+        export PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH && \
+        ./contrib/build-wheel.sh \
+            --python-version $PYTHON_VERSION \
+            --platform $WHL_PLATFORM \
+            --ucx-plugins-dir /usr/lib64/ucx \
+            --nixl-plugins-dir $NIXL_PLUGIN_DIR \
+            --output-dir dist || exit 1; \
+    done
+
+# Copy the meta package wheel to the dist directory, which will be used to push to PyPI.
+# Only do this for the CUDA 12 builds, since by default nixl depends on nixl-cu12.
+RUN if [ "$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1)" = "12" ]; then \
+      cp build/src/bindings/python/nixl-meta/nixl*.whl dist/; \
+    fi
+
+RUN uv pip install dist/nixl*cp${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION//./}*.whl build/src/bindings/python/nixl-meta/nixl*.whl
diff --git a/contrib/Dockerfile.rockylinux9 b/contrib/Dockerfile.rockylinux9
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_TAG
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}:${BASE_IMAGE_TAG}
+
+ARG DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION="3.14"
+ARG ARCH="x86_64"
+ARG UCX_REF="v1.20.x"
+ARG LIBFABRIC_VERSION="v1.21.0"
+ARG HWLOC_VERSION="2.12.2"
+ARG BUILD_TYPE="release"
+ARG URING_TAG="liburing-2.13"
+
+RUN dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core && \
+    dnf groupinstall -y "Development Tools" && \
+    dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb && \
+    dnf install -y epel-release && \
+    dnf install -y \
+    autoconf \
+    automake \
+    boost \
+    boost-devel \
+    bzip2 \
+    clang-devel \
+    cmake \
+    diffutils \
+    distribution-gpg-keys-copr \
+    dkms \
+    flex \
+    gflags \
+    gcc \
+    glibc-headers \
+    gcc-c++ \
+    git \
+    libaio \
+    libaio-devel \
+    libcurl-devel \
+    libtool \
+    libtool-ltdl \
+    make \
+    ninja-build \
+    numactl-devel \
+    openssl \
+    openssl-devel \
+    pciutils-devel \
+    perl \
+    perl-Data-Dumper \
+    perl-IPC-Cmd \
+    perl-Test-Simple \
+    pkgconfig \
+    protobuf-compiler \
+    protobuf-c-devel \
+    protobuf-devel \
+    rdma-core \
+    rdma-core-devel \
+    libibverbs \
+    libibverbs-devel \
+    libibumad \
+    libibumad-devel \
+    librdmacm-devel \
+    tar \
+    which \
+    wget \
+    xz \
+    zlib && \
+    dnf clean all
+
+# Build latest hwloc from source to avoid API limitations.
+RUN cd /tmp && \
+    HWLOC_SERIES="$(echo ${HWLOC_VERSION} | cut -d. -f1,2)" && \
+    wget -q "https://download.open-mpi.org/release/hwloc/v${HWLOC_SERIES}/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz" && \
+    tar -xzf "hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz" && \
+    cd "hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}" && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-nvml && \
+    make -j"$(nproc)" && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf "/tmp/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}" "/tmp/hwloc-${HWLOC_VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+WORKDIR /workspace
+
+RUN git clone --recurse-submodules -b v1.73.0 --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/grpc/grpc && \
+    cd grpc && \
+    mkdir -p cmake/build && \
+    cd cmake/build && \
+    cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
+    -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+    -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package ../.. && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && \
+    make install
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+RUN cd /workspace && \
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/etcd-cpp-apiv3/etcd-cpp-apiv3.git && \
+    cd etcd-cpp-apiv3 && \
+    sed -i '/^find_dependency(cpprestsdk)$/d' etcd-cpp-api-config.in.cmake && \
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    cmake .. -DBUILD_ETCD_CORE_ONLY=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DETCD_CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && make install
+
+RUN git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp.git --branch 1.11.760
+RUN mkdir aws_sdk_build && cd aws_sdk_build && \
+    cmake ../aws-sdk-cpp/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_ONLY="s3;s3-crt" -DENABLE_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+        -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF && \
+    make -j${NPROC:-$(nproc)} && make install
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/axboe/liburing.git && \
+     cd liburing && \
+     git checkout $URING_TAG && \
+     ./configure --cc=gcc --cxx=g++ && \
+     make -j library && make liburing.pc && make install && \
+     ldconfig && \
+     cd ..
+
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/nvidia/gusli.git && \
+     cd gusli && \
+     sed -i '/^LFLAGS_ALL =/{/-lrt/ b; s/$/ -lrt/}' Makefile && \
+     make all BUILD_RELEASE=1 BUILD_FOR_UNITEST=0 VERBOSE=1 ALLOW_USE_URING=0 && \
+     cd ..
+
+# Required for Azure SDK
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2.git --branch 2.15 && \
+    cd libxml2 && \
+    cmake -S . -B build \
+        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
+        -DLIBXML2_WITH_PYTHON=OFF && \
+    cmake --build build -j"$(nproc)" && \
+    cmake --install build
+
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp.git --branch azure-storage-blobs_12.15.0 && \
+    cd azure-sdk-for-cpp/ && \
+    mkdir build && cd build && \
+    AZURE_SDK_DISABLE_AUTO_VCPKG=1 cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DDISABLE_AMQP=ON -DDISABLE_AZURE_CORE_OPENTELEMETRY=ON \
+        -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=OFF && \
+    cmake --build . --target azure-storage-blobs azure-identity && \
+    cmake --install sdk/core && \
+    cmake --install sdk/storage/azure-storage-common && \
+    cmake --install sdk/storage/azure-storage-blobs && \
+    cmake --install sdk/identity
+
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
+
+ENV RUSTUP_HOME=/usr/local/rustup \
+    CARGO_HOME=/usr/local/cargo \
+    PATH=/usr/local/cargo/bin:$PATH \
+    RUST_VERSION=1.86.0 \
+    RUSTARCH=${ARCH}-unknown-linux-gnu
+
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 "https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/archive/1.28.1/${RUSTARCH}/rustup-init" && \
+    chmod +x rustup-init && \
+    ./rustup-init -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain $RUST_VERSION --default-host ${RUSTARCH} && \
+    case "$ARCH" in \
+        aarch64) RUSTUP_SHA256="c64b33db2c6b9385817ec0e49a84bcfe018ed6e328fe755c3c809580cc70ce7a" ;; \
+        x86_64) RUSTUP_SHA256="a3339fb004c3d0bb9862ba0bce001861fe5cbde9c10d16591eb3f39ee6cd3e7f" ;; \
+        *) echo "Unsupported architecture for Rust: $ARCH" && exit 1 ;; \
+    esac && \
+    echo "$RUSTUP_SHA256 *rustup-init" | sha256sum -c - && \
+    rm rustup-init && \
+    chmod -R a+w $RUSTUP_HOME $CARGO_HOME
+
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 "https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/DOCA/DOCA_v3.2.0/host/doca-host-3.2.0-125000_25.10_rhel9.${ARCH}.rpm" -O doca-host.rpm && \
+    rpm -i doca-host.rpm && \
+    dnf install -y libnl3-devel && \
+    cd /usr/share/doca-host-3.2.0/repo/Packages/ && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-common-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-rdma-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-verbs-*rpm && \
+    rpm -ivh --nodeps doca-sdk-gpunetio-*rpm && \
+    # Check that gpunetio development package is installed correctly
+    pkg-config --cflags --libs doca-gpunetio
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+ENV CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda
+
+WORKDIR /workspace
+
+RUN rm -rf /usr/lib/ucx
+RUN rm -rf /opt/hpcx/ucx
+
+RUN cd /workspace && \
+    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && \
+    cd gdrcopy && \
+    git fetch --tags --depth=1 && \
+    latest_tag=$(git describe --tags "$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)") && \
+    git checkout "$latest_tag" && \
+    cd packages && \
+    CUDA=/usr/local/cuda ./build-rpm-packages.sh && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-kmod-*.el9.noarch.rpm && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-*.el9.$ARCH.rpm && \
+    rpm -Uvh gdrcopy-devel-*.el9.noarch.rpm
+
+RUN cd /usr/local/src && \
+     git clone https://github.com/openucx/ucx.git && \
+     cd ucx && 			     \
+     git checkout $UCX_REF &&	     \
+     ./autogen.sh && \
+     ./contrib/configure-release-mt  \
+         --enable-shared             \
+         --disable-static            \
+         --disable-doxygen-doc       \
+         --enable-optimizations      \
+         --enable-cma                \
+         --enable-devel-headers      \
+         --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda \
+         --with-verbs                \
+         --with-dm                   \
+         --with-gdrcopy=/usr/local   \
+         --with-efa  &&              \
+     make -j &&                      \
+     make -j install-strip &&        \
+     ldconfig
+
+# Build libfabric from source
+RUN wget --tries=3 --waitretry=5 --timeout=30 --read-timeout=60 \
+    "https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/releases/download/${LIBFABRIC_VERSION}/libfabric-${LIBFABRIC_VERSION#v}.tar.bz2" -O libfabric.tar.bz2 && \
+    tar xjf libfabric.tar.bz2 && rm libfabric.tar.bz2 && \
+    cd libfabric-* && \
+    ./autogen.sh && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
+                --disable-verbs \
+                --disable-psm3 \
+                --disable-opx \
+                --disable-usnic \
+                --disable-rstream \
+                --enable-efa \
+                --with-cuda=/usr/local/cuda \
+                --enable-cuda-dlopen \
+                --with-gdrcopy \
+                --enable-gdrcopy-dlopen && \
+    make -j$(nproc) && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig
+
+# Ensure pkg-config and linker can discover source-installed libs under /usr/local.
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+RUN printf "/usr/local/lib64\n/usr/local/lib\n" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf && ldconfig
+
+# By default, uv downloads python packages to $HOME/.cache/uv and hard links them
+# from the virtual environment. This means that the files reside in /root/.cache/uv,
+# which is not what we want since some systems mount user home dir into /root,
+# in which case the venv is broken when the container is started.
+# Set a custom cache directory inside /workspace to avoid this.
+ENV UV_CACHE_DIR=/workspace/.cache/uv
+RUN mkdir -p $UV_CACHE_DIR
+# Create a new virtual environment
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/workspace/.venv
+RUN rm -rf $VIRTUAL_ENV && uv venv $VIRTUAL_ENV --python $DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION
+# Activate the virtual environment
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+# Install python dependencies
+RUN uv pip install --upgrade meson meson-python pybind11 patchelf pyYAML click setuptools tabulate auditwheel tomlkit
+# Install PyTorch
+RUN export UV_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d .)" && \
+    uv pip install torch torchvision torchaudio
+# Upgrade setuptools to latest version for compatibility with PEP 639 (license format)
+RUN uv pip install --upgrade 'setuptools>=80.9.0'
+
+COPY . /workspace/nixl
+WORKDIR /workspace/nixl
+
+RUN rm -rf build && \
+    mkdir build && \
+    meson setup build/ --prefix=/usr/local/nixl --buildtype=$BUILD_TYPE \
+    -Dcudapath_lib="/usr/local/cuda/lib64" \
+    -Dcudapath_inc="/usr/local/cuda/include" && \
+    cd build && \
+    ninja && \
+    ninja install
+
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/plugins:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ENV NIXL_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/local/nixl/lib64/plugins
+
+RUN echo "/usr/local/nixl/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nixl.conf && \
+    echo "/usr/local/nixl/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu/plugins" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nixl.conf && \
+    ldconfig
+
+# Create the wheel
+# No need to specifically add path to libcuda.so here, meson finds the stubs and links them
+ARG WHL_PYTHON_VERSIONS="3.10,3.11,3.12,3.13,3.14"
+ARG WHL_PLATFORM="manylinux_2_28_$ARCH"
+RUN IFS=',' read -ra PYTHON_VERSIONS <<< "$WHL_PYTHON_VERSIONS" && \
+    export UV_INDEX="https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d .)" && \
+    export UV_INDEX_STRATEGY=unsafe-best-match && \
+    rm -rf dist && mkdir -p dist && \
+    for PYTHON_VERSION in "${PYTHON_VERSIONS[@]}"; do \
+        export PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH && \
+        ./contrib/build-wheel.sh \
+            --python-version $PYTHON_VERSION \
+            --platform $WHL_PLATFORM \
+            --ucx-plugins-dir /usr/lib64/ucx \
+            --nixl-plugins-dir $NIXL_PLUGIN_DIR \
+            --output-dir dist || exit 1 ; \
+    done
+
+# Copy the meta package wheel to the dist directory, which will be used to push to PyPI.
+# Only do this for the CUDA 12 builds, since by default nixl depends on nixl-cu12.
+RUN if [ "$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1)" = "12" ]; then \
+      cp build/src/bindings/python/nixl-meta/nixl*.whl dist/; \
+    fi
+
+RUN uv pip install dist/nixl*cp${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION//./}*.whl build/src/bindings/python/nixl-meta/nixl*.whl
diff --git a/contrib/build-wheel.sh b/contrib/build-wheel.sh
index f4f25e56f5..2f5b4ea158 100755
--- a/contrib/build-wheel.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-wheel.sh
@@ -84,7 +84,16 @@ if [ "$CUDA_MAJOR" -ne 12 ] && [ "$CUDA_MAJOR" -ne 13 ]; then
 fi
 PKG_NAME="nixl-cu${CUDA_MAJOR}"
 ./contrib/tomlutil.py --wheel-name $PKG_NAME pyproject.toml
-uv build --wheel --out-dir $TMP_DIR --python $PYTHON_VERSION
+
+# Required for publishing manylinux_x86_64 wheels: avoid x86_64_v2+ codegen.
+if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+    export CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic ${CFLAGS:-}"
+    export CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic ${CXXFLAGS:-}"
+fi
+
+uv build --wheel --out-dir $TMP_DIR --python $PYTHON_VERSION \
+    -Csetup-args=-Dbuild_examples=false \
+    -Csetup-args=-Dbuild_tests=false
 
 # Bundle libraries
 mkdir $TMP_DIR/dist
diff --git a/contrib/create-wheels.sh b/contrib/create-wheels.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..14c52f0ef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/create-wheels.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Exit on error and print commands
+set -e
+set -x
+
+CUDA_VERSIONS="13.0.2 12.8.1"
+PYTHON_VERSIONS="3.10,3.11,3.12,3.13,3.14"
+
+arch=$(uname -m)
+[ "$arch" = "arm64" ] && arch="aarch64"
+
+# Remove any existing dist and wheels directories
+rm -rf dist/*
+rm -rf wheels/*
+mkdir -p wheels
+
+# Remove any existing container
+docker rm temp-nixl || true
+
+for cuda_version in ${CUDA_VERSIONS}
+do
+    tag="nixl-wheels-${cuda_version}"
+    ./contrib/build-container.sh \
+        --base-image 'nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda' \
+        --base-image-tag "${cuda_version}-devel-rockylinux9" \
+        --wheel-base manylinux_2_34 \
+        --python-versions "${PYTHON_VERSIONS}" \
+        --tag $tag \
+        --arch $arch \
+        --dockerfile contrib/Dockerfile.rockylinux9
+    docker create --name temp-nixl $tag
+    docker cp temp-nixl:/workspace/nixl/dist/ wheels/
+    # Move all .whl files from wheels/dist subdirectories at any depth to wheels/
+    find wheels/dist -type f -name '*.whl' -exec mv {} wheels/ \;
+    rm -rf wheels/dist
+    docker rm temp-nixl
+done
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 104c1d3bfb..45791ca9cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["meson-python", "pybind11", "patchelf", "pyyaml", "types-PyYAML", "pytest", "build", "setuptools>=80.9.0"]
+requires = ["meson-python", "pybind11", "patchelf", "pyyaml", "types-PyYAML", "pytest", "build", "truststore", "setuptools>=80.9.0"]
 build-backend = "mesonpy"
 
 [project]