VMblog sits down with Dilpreet Bindra, Senior Director of Engineering for the VCF Division at Broadcom, from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.

In this interview, Dilpreet breaks down Broadcom and VMware’s significant role in the CNCF open source community — including major contributions to Cluster API, etcd, and the Harbor OCI registry — and explains why the company is now working to bring the Velero backup and restore project into the CNCF Sandbox for improved governance and broader community stewardship.

We dig into the real-world operational challenges platform teams face when running Kubernetes at enterprise scale — managing not one cluster but hundreds — and how VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is designed to address those pain points through simplified lifecycle management, faster provisioning, and a clear separation between infrastructure and application ownership.

Dilpreet also discusses the latest VKS 3.6 release, which opens the door for customers to bring their own OS and CNI of choice — including Isovalent and Tigera — giving enterprise teams the flexibility to extend VKS with the ecosystem tools they already trust.

On the AI front, learn how Broadcom and VMware have partnered with Nvidia to build vGPU reservation capabilities directly into vSphere, achieved CNCF AI conformance for their Kubernetes distro, and added core AI services to VCF — including a model store, model runtime, and agent builder technology — to support the full AI workload lifecycle.

Key topics covered:

• Broadcom/VMware’s CNCF contributions: Cluster API, etcd, Harbor
• Velero’s transition to CNCF Sandbox
• Kubernetes lifecycle management and chained upgrades at scale
• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.6 — bring your own OS and CNI
• GPU resource management and AI workload support with Nvidia vGPU
• The “cattle not pets” philosophy for enterprise Kubernetes
• What VCF customers should know about VKS availability today

Learn more: vmware.com

Back to: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026