At KubeCon 2026, Pete Flecha and Jad El-Zein sat down with Mark Lewis, VP of Application Services at Canonical, to discuss the growing partnership between Canonical and Broadcom.

The conversation explores how enterprises are simplifying cloud native adoption with chiseled containers, reducing operational overhead, improving security posture, and accelerating AI initiatives inside private cloud environments. Mark shares how Canonical is helping organizations move faster with production-ready, audit-ready container images, while VMware Cloud Foundation provides the operational platform enterprises already trust.

They also dive into GPU-optimized AI images, Kubernetes operational simplicity, telco use cases, and why making AI infrastructure consumable is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today.

If you’re interested in Kubernetes, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, private cloud, or operational simplicity at scale, this is a great conversation from the KubeCon show floor.