Broadcom at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference today revealed that the VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) now supports the Container Network Interface (CNI) along with integrations for networking and security platforms provided by F5, Kong and Tigera.
At the same time, Broadcom also announced it has contributed Velero, an open source backup and recovery tool for Kubernetes clusters, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Additionally, VMware VKS now supports version 1.35 of Kubernetes along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 as a base-level operating system. IT teams can also now generate VKS support bundles without vCenter credentials.
Broadcom is adding a Declarative TuneD profiles capability to enable safe kernel and sysctl tuning for databases and high-throughput applications without requiring any host customization and a simpler AppArmor profile management capability that allows profiles to be defined as custom resources that…