Broadcom contributes Velero to CNCF to strengthen open source Kubernetes while boosting enterprise resilience, AI readiness and interoperability.
Broadcom Inc. has reinforced its open-source strategy by contributing its Kubernetes-native backup, restore and migration tool, Velero, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox. The move signals a shift towards vendor-neutral governance aimed at driving community participation, long-term sustainability and enterprise trust.
Velero addresses a critical gap in Kubernetes by enabling cluster-level backup and recovery for stateful workloads. “Velero is critical for organizations because Kubernetes, by default, doesn’t provide built-in cluster-level backup or recovery,” said Prashanth Shenoy, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloud Platform, Infrastructure and Solutions Group, Broadcom. “Using Velero helps organizations protect their stateful applications and data, recover quickly from outages or failures, as well as move workloads across different Kubernetes clusters or workload environments.”
The initiative aligns Broadcom with community-led development models, reinforcing Kubernetes as an open, interoperable ecosystem rather than a proprietary stack.
Alongside, Broadcom introduced updates to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS 3.6), including Kubernetes 1.35 support, enhanced lifecycle management, improved networking flexibility and declarative performance tuning for AI and data-intensive workloads. “We believe that there are certain key areas that we have to focus on: things like reliability, lifecycle management and security,” Shenoy said.
The company also expanded partnerships with F5 Networks, Kong Inc. and Tigera to deliver validated integrations.
Addressing the retirement of the open-source Ingress NGINX controller, Broadcom is positioning VMware Avi Load Balancer as an integrated alternative. “It’s more than just a replacement for the NGINX Nginx controller,” Shenoy said. “It’s an architectural upgrade… and modernizes secure Kubernetes ingress.”
“Our commitment is to provide customers the choice and flexibility they need to run seamlessly on VKS at enterprise scale with total confidence and zero friction,” he added.
