Broadcom Donates Velero to CNCF, Shifting Kubernetes Backup to Community Governance

Broadcom has announced the contribution of Velero, its Kubernetes-native backup, restore and migration project, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. Velero It operates at the Kubernetes API layer, capturing cluster state through Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) rather than through hypervisor or storage-layer snapshots. The announcement was made at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.

Velero traces its origins to Heptio, the Kubernetes company founded by former Google engineers Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, which VMware acquired in 2019. The project has been under VMware and subsequently Broadcom stewardship since then. Platform teams use it to back up namespace definitions, persistent volume claims, RBAC policies, and other resource configurations as portable Kubernetes objects that can, in theory, be restored to a different cluster or distribution than the one from which the backup was taken. It has nearly 9,900 stars on…