Chopping Wood, Carrying Water: VMware by Broadcom's Open Source Story at KubeCon EU 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses VMware by Broadcom's contributions to the open source community and the Kubernetes ecosystem at KubeCon Europe 2026.

James Governor of RedMonk sits down with VMware by Broadcom's Dilpreet Bindra and Zach Shepherd at KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam to unpack what they call "the best kept secret in the industry": VMware by Broadcom's deep, sustained contributions to the CNCF and Kubernetes ecosystem. The conversation covers VMware's shift to exposing Cluster API directly as a product commitment, the etcd diagnostic tooling they've open-sourced for the whole community, and the journey of Velero from an internal project to a CNCF sandbox project with maintainers from Red Hat, Microsoft, and beyond. The trio also digs into the significance of CNCF's new AI platform conformance program, VKS's certification as a Kubernetes AI platform, and why workload portability matters more than ever as the AI tooling landscape explodes. Dilpreet and Zach close with what's got them buzzing at the biggest KubeCon Europe yet — from llm-d's CNCF sandbox acceptance to the quality of customer conversations happening on the show floor. This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom. Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ vmware-by-broadcoms-open-source-story-at-kubecon-eu-2026/ Chapters: 00:00…

People in this episode

Host: James Governor

Guests: Dilpreet Bindra, Zach Shepherd

Topics covered

• open source contributions
• Kubernetes ecosystem
• CNCF
• AI platform conformance
• workload portability
• KubeCon Europe

Keywords

• VMware
• Broadcom
• KubeCon
• CNCF
• Kubernetes
• open source
• AI platform
• Cluster API
• Velero

Sponsors

VMware by Broadcom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VMware by Broadcom, CNCF, Red Hat, Microsoft

Products: Cluster API, etcd diagnostic tooling, Velero, VKS

Places: Amsterdam

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