One Platform for All Workloads - VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
Cloud Native Now, Monday, August 25th, 2025
There's an unwritten law in enterprise IT - by the time a product reaches version nine, it's either a bloated legacy holdover or a truly refined platform. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 falls squarely into the latter category.
Broadcom's engineering team has listened to years of feedback from enterprises struggling to unify VM and container operations. The result is a platform that feels coherent, polished, and, dare we say it, actually cloud-like.
At the heart of this release sits Supervisor, a declarative API that finally unifies the management of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and supporting services. For those of us used to juggling multiple tools, inconsistent CLIs, and a sprawl of YAML files, having a single, consistent consumption model is a welcome relief. Instead of worrying whether we're deploying to 'the VM side' or 'the container side', we describe the desired state and let the platform take care of the rest. It's the kind of abstraction VMware has always promised, but here it feels tangible.