Broadcom Contributes API for Virtual Machines to CNCF

Broadcom shares pop over 9%, on track for biggest one-day surge in a year. What's driving the rebound?

Broadcom shares rose 9.5% to $321 after it announced Kubernetes initiatives at KubeCon North America 2026, including its VM API project entering the CNCF Sandbox, a new workload standards role, and more than 20 validated VMware VKS partner solutions.

Broadcom details Kubernetes work on a vendor-neutral VM API, workload conformance and agent sandboxing

Broadcom is pushing a set of upstream contributions to the Kubernetes ecosystem, from a vendor-neutral API for virtual machines to a new working group on workload conformance. Dilpreet Bindra, senior director of engineering at Broadcom, described the work in a blog post ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. Bindra wrote that the thread... … continue reading

Broadcom VM API Project Joins CNCF Sandbox for Kubernetes Management

The project is designed to manage virtual machines and containers through one Kubernetes control plane.

Broadcom Contributes VM API Open Source Project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    VM API Project Accepted into CNCF Sandbox to support Vendor-Neutral Kubernetes API for Virtual Machines New Validated Partner Solutions Help Accelerate AI and Modern App Delivery Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced the VM API project has been accepted into the […]

Broadcom open-sources its Kubernetes VM manager

Broadcom Inc. is contributing an open-source project for managing virtual machines with Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, part of an effort to simplify operations across increasingly diverse enterprise computing environments. The company announced today that its VM application programming interface project has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox, the entry point for early-stage […]

Broadcom Contributes API for Virtual Machines to CNCF

Broadcom is pushing to make virtual machines first-class citizens in Kubernetes, contributing a VM API to the CNCF and backing new workload portability standards. The move strengthens its strategy to unify traditional, cloud-native and AI workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation.