Broadcom announced at KubeCon North America the contribution of its VM API project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Sandbox. The announcement seeks to unify the way cloud operators provision and manage virtual machines through Kubernetes APIs across different vendors. The initiative comes at a time when virtual machines continue to account for the majority of workloads in production.
The VM API is designed to enable the creation, configuration, and scaling of VMs using declarative Kubernetes resources, reducing friction between container orchestration and VM workloads. The stated goal is to deliver a consistent experience regardless of the underlying provider.
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According to a Linux Foundation report released on the same day, virtual machines account for 53% of applications in production, a figure that underscores the operational relevance of the announcement. The coexistence of VMs and containers remains the norm in enterprise environments.
For Mexico and Latin America, standardization can simplify the adoption of hybrids and multicloud in on-premises providers, by allowing existing Kubernetes policies and operators to be reused on virtual infrastructure.
Platform teams could reduce provisioning time and improve observability by speaking the same API language for containers and VMs. That directly impacts operational costs and speed of delivery.
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What's next: The CNCF community will assess the maturity of the project, input from other vendors is expected, and reference deployments in public and private clouds are expected. Actual adoption will depend on the quality of the controllers and feedback from operators in production.
