Broadcom's VM API Open Source Project Accepted into CNCF Sandbox
Broadcom Inc. of Palo Alto, California, announced at KubeCon North America 2026 on November 9 that the VM API project has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox. VM API enables virtual machines to be provisioned and managed through Kubernetes APIs across multiple heterogeneous infrastructure providers.
Broadcom also said it is co-chairing the newly formed Workload Conformance Working Group within the Kubernetes community, with the goal of establishing a shared standard for how workloads run on Kubernetes, and that more than 20 partner solutions have been validated for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), spanning observability, security, data and application delivery.
The Linux Foundation's 2026 Virtual Machines Report, released the same day, found that virtual machines account for 53% of production applications across the 492 practitioners surveyed, with most organizations expecting that share to hold steady. Among organizations expanding their VM footprint, 34% cited super intelligence and agentic workloads as a contributing factor.
"For decades, VMware technology has set the standard for enterprise virtualization. Modern super intelligence and agentic workflows now require VMs to operate within cloud-native ecosystems," said Dilpreet Bindra, senior director of engineering in Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division. He said contributing VM API to the CNCF aims to make VMs first-class citizens alongside containers, in a single, unified control plane.
Matthew Flug, research manager at IDC, said virtual machines and containers will continue to coexist, and managing both through the same control plane makes consistent governance simpler for platform engineering teams.
(Source: Broadcom)
Source: Broadcom
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