Accelerating Kubernetes Innovation through CNCF Contributions

Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 69 - Beyond vRA + NSX: Delivering Cloud-Native Networking with VCF 9 Virtual Private Clouds Scaling VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Lab Environments using Holodeck 9.0 Enterprise customers can now deploy NVIDIA Run:ai on VMware Cloud Foundation Open-source forms the foundation of modern cloud infrastructure, driving key innovations across the industry. At Broadcom, we are not just consumers of open-source projects, we are active contributors and maintainers helping shape CNCF initiatives. Our engineers help address complex operational challenges through direct upstream contributions that make Kubernetes more reliable, scalable, and secure. Broadcom has long been one of the top five contributors 1 to CNCF projects, demonstrating not just participation but genuine leadership in the open-source ecosystem. This isn’t about using open source simply as a consumer but rather strengthening it as a shared foundation for innovation, a practice we uphold across all projects shown in Figure 1. Broadcom’s sustained investment and contributions reflect deep trust in community-driven progress, where collaboration and transparency ultimately serve customers, partners, and the broader industry. Figure 1: Fostering Innovation through Collaboration Challenges for customers By 2029, more than 95% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 50% in 2023 2. Kubernetes has played a key role as the container orchestration system with adoption at 80% according to a survey conducted by CNCF in 2024 3. In the same survey, 46% of the respondents indicated that open-source projects, including Kubernetes itself, are difficult to understand or run while an equal percentage expressed concerns about the longevity of these projects, and 29% of respondents expressed concerns about security vulnerabilities. While Kubernetes is incredibly powerful and a standard for modern infrastructure, it is also inherently complex. Kubernetes requires integration with dozens of separate tools to achieve enterprise-grade security, compliance, lifecycle management, and consistent operations at scale. Customers are responsible for integrating and operating a complex ecosystem securely and consistently.