Why Kubernetes Still Needs VM Infrastructure

March 31, 2026

The narrative that Kubernetes would eventually kill the virtual machine has officially been debunked, as the industry wakes up to the reality that managing bare-metal clusters at scale is a complex and costly nightmare. Weigue He, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Broadcom, explains how VMware Cloud Foundation is leaning into its decades of infrastructure experience by seamlessly integrating dynamic GPU resource allocation to make AI workloads more accessible. As organizations grapple with out-of-control hardware costs and the need for rock-solid security, the smartest move isn’t ripping and replacing your CI/CD pipeline—it’s running those modern containers on the proven, resilient foundation of VMs.

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