Virtually Speaking Podcast

Coming to you from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City, the Virtually Speaking Podcast welcomes back Dilpreet for a conversation about the future of Kubernetes, open collaboration, and the growing demands of AI workloads.

Following his KubeCon keynote, Dilpreet joins Pete Flecha and Niran to discuss Broadcom’s latest contributions to the CNCF ecosystem, including the VM API project’s acceptance into the CNCF Sandbox and the new Workload Conformance Working Group.

The conversation explores why consistent Kubernetes experiences matter across infrastructure providers, how virtual machines and containers can coexist under a common control plane, and what emerging AI agent workloads mean for infrastructure security.

We also discuss VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), opportunities around Agent Substrate, and efforts to simplify deploying AI models on-premises.

Topics include:

VM API and bringing virtual machines into Kubernetes through a common abstraction
Workload conformance and improving application portability across Kubernetes distributions
AI agents, secure execution environments, and infrastructure security
VKS and the role of Kubernetes in private AI
Why Broadcom is investing in upstream CNCF collaboration
Making on-premises AI deployment simpler and more accessible

Chapters

00:00 Introduction from KubeCon 2026
00:31 Dilpreet’s keynote and CNCF announcements
01:46 VM API joins the CNCF Sandbox
02:43 Why Kubernetes needs a common VM abstraction
03:31 Hybrid environments and AI workload portability
04:15 VKS and the infrastructure demands of AI
05:19 Exploring Agent Substrate and secure AI execution
06:53 Security and governance for AI agents
07:38 Introducing the Workload Conformance Working Group
08:43 Solving Kubernetes portability challenges
09:18 Why Broadcom contributes to open source
10:24 Getting started with Kubernetes and VKS
11:12 Simplifying on-premises AI deployment
11:55 KubeCon booth highlights and hands-on demos
12:46 Closing thoughts

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#KubeCon #Kubernetes #VMwareCloudFoundation #CloudNative #CNCF #PrivateAI #VirtuallySpeaking Pete Flecha:  Coming to you from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City, the Virtually Speaking Podcast welcomes back Dilpreet for a conversation about the future of Kubernetes, open collaboration, and the growing demands of AI workloads.

Following his KubeCon keynote, Dilpreet joins Pete Flecha and Niran to discuss Broadcom’s latest contributions to the CNCF ecosystem, including the VM API project’s acceptance into the CNCF Sandbox and the new Workload Conformance Working Group.

The conversation explores why consistent Kubernetes experiences matter across infrastructure providers, how virtual machines and containers can coexist under a common control plane, and what emerging AI agent workloads mean for infrastructure security.

We also discuss VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), opportunities around Agent Substrate, and efforts to simplify deploying AI models on-premises.

Topics include:

VM API and bringing virtual machines into Kubernetes through a common abstraction

Workload conformance and improving application portability across Kubernetes distributions

AI agents, secure execution environments, and infrastructure security

VKS and the role of Kubernetes in private AI

Why Broadcom is investing in upstream CNCF collaboration

Making on-premises AI deployment simpler and more accessible

Subscribe to the VMware Cloud Foundation YouTube channel for more Virtually Speaking conversations from KubeCon 2026.

#KubeCon #Kubernetes #VMwareCloudFoundation #CloudNative #CNCF #PrivateAI #VirtuallySpeaking

Coming to you from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City!

In this episode of Virtually Speaking, Pete Flecha and Niran Evenchen sit down with Himanshu Singh to discuss VMware by Broadcom’s latest contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem, including advancements in VM API, Kubernetes workload conformance, and the rapidly expanding VMware Cloud Foundation ecosystem.

The conversation explores how open collaboration and industry standards are helping organizations simplify Kubernetes operations, improve workload portability, and bring virtual machines and containers together under a common control plane.

Topics include:

VM API: Enabling vendor-neutral virtual machine management through Kubernetes.
Kubernetes Workload Conformance: Building community-driven standards to improve application consistency and portability across platforms.
VM Service: Bringing traditional VMs into Kubernetes environments without disrupting existing workloads.
Ecosystem Momentum: 24 newly announced partner validations, bringing the VMware Cloud Foundation ecosystem to more than 100 validated partners.
Private Cloud Innovation: Delivering integrated Kubernetes, VM, container, AI, storage, and networking services with greater choice and flexibility.

Himanshu also shares how VMware engineers are contributing to open source projects and collaborating with the CNCF community to advance interoperability across the cloud-native ecosystem.

What if you could manage virtual machines and Kubernetes workloads through a single, unified control plane?

In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein are joined by Shruthi Rajashekar and Arunesh Pandey, engineering leaders behind KubeVM Service, to explore how VMware Cloud Foundation is bringing Kubernetes-native management to traditional virtual machines.

For years, virtualization administrators and platform engineering teams have operated in separate worlds. One manages VMs through vCenter and traditional workflows, while the other uses Kubernetes, declarative APIs, and GitOps to manage cloud-native applications. KubeVM Service aims to bring these worlds together.

We explore how KubeVM Service enables self-service VM provisioning, policy-based governance, and declarative lifecycle management while preserving the capabilities of the underlying virtualization platform.

The conversation also covers the proposed vendor-neutral VM API, how it compares with KubeVirt, and how existing VMs can transition toward Kubernetes-based management without requiring application rebuilds.

Plus, we discuss innovations like Fast Deploy, unified resource management, and the CNCF sandbox initiative aimed at establishing a common API for managing virtual machines across infrastructure providers.

Links Mentioned

KubeVM Service blog

 https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/10/22/introducing-kubevm-service/

Github

https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/vm-operator

https://github.com/vm-api/vm-api

Gitops blog on VCF

https://rutgerblom.com/2026/10/27/gitops-for-vms-on-vcf-9/

Videos

https://youtu.be/puJYxPvj2zU?si=Uyj7UluhdB9T2ay9

https://youtu.be/a2LksDuZlwc?si=lxSsKc29i-4xY3wy

AI investment is accelerating, but how do organizations move beyond spending on AI to actually measuring its business value?

In this episode of the Virtually Speaking podcast, recorded at VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein are joined by J.R. Stormont from the Linux Foundation’s Tokenomics Foundation and Raj, Head of ValueOps at Broadcom, to explore the emerging discipline of Tokenomics.

Tokenomics goes far beyond counting tokens. With token consumption representing only a portion of the total cost of AI, organizations need a more comprehensive approach to understanding infrastructure costs, model selection, governance, and measurable business outcomes.

The conversation explores how enterprises can optimize AI investments by connecting technical efficiency to business value, selecting the right models for different workloads, and establishing governance frameworks that balance cost, security, data sovereignty, and compliance.

What does it take to build, manage, and scale Kubernetes in the enterprise?

Recorded live at VMware Explore 2026, this episode of the Virtually Speaking podcast welcomes Adam Tucker and May Large from MomentumAI to share their real-world experiences with enterprise Kubernetes, platform engineering, and VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS).

Drawing on their experience with Red Hat OpenShift and large-scale application environments, they discuss the operational challenges of managing Kubernetes at scale, the importance of declarative automation with Cluster API (CAPI), and the considerations involved in evaluating and adopting new platforms.

The conversation also explores practical approaches to migrating containerized workloads, simplifying Kubernetes operations, and enabling infrastructure and platform engineering teams to work more effectively together.

Whether you’re exploring VKS, modernizing your Kubernetes environment, or building a platform engineering strategy, this episode offers practical insights and lessons learned from the field.