Broadcom added developer services to the instance of Kubernetes embedded in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including the Argo continuous delivery platform. Broadcom expanded its alliance with Canonical to deliver enterprise-grade support for VCF instances running on Ubuntu. The embedded Kubernetes will support Chiseled Ubuntu containers to reduce footprint, speed downloads, lower storage costs, and accelerate startup. Broadcom and Canonical will provide precompiled GPU drivers to speed AI workload deployments, improve infrastructure efficiency, and reduce dependencies on external repositories. Broadcom is shifting strategy toward running containerized applications on VCF and adding Istio, databases, and hardened container support to VKS.
The instance of Kubernetes that is embedded into VCF will also now support Chiseled Ubuntu containers, which minimize footprints by removing unnecessary packages, utilities, and libraries to enable faster download times, reduced storage costs, and faster startup. Finally, Broadcom is working with Canonical to enable faster deployments for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads using precompiled drivers for graphical processor units (GPUs) to both consume infrastructure more efficiently and reduce dependencies on external repositories to download drivers.
Broadcom, in the wake of acquiring VMware, has shifted its platform strategy to place more emphasis on running containerized applications on an instance of Kubernetes that is embedded in VCF. The VMware Tanzu platform, in contrast, is now based on an instance of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment rather than an instance of Kubernetes. In furtherance of that strategy, Broadcom is now adding a set of developer services to vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) that, in addition to Argo, add support for the Istio service mesh, Postgres and MySQL database and, via a VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance service add-on, support for hardened containers.
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