Recorded live at KubeCon 2026, Johan van Amersfoort (Chief Evangelist and AI Lead at ITQ) sits down with Frank Denneman (Distinguished Engineer, AI at Broadcom) to challenge one of the most common assumptions in Cloud Native: does bare metal Kubernetes really exist?

As AI workloads grow and infrastructure becomes more complex, resource management, security, and consistency become critical. This episode explores why virtualization still plays a key role in modern Kubernetes platforms and how solutions like VMware Cloud Foundation and VKS approach this differently.

From GPU allocation and AI workloads to platform consistency and open source alignment, this conversation provides a clear perspective on how enterprise platforms are evolving.

In this episode they discuss:

• Why “bare metal Kubernetes” is often a misconception
• The role of virtualization in security, isolation, and consistency
• Resource management challenges with AI and GPUs
• How VKS integrates Kubernetes into VMware Cloud Foundation
• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) and smarter GPU usage
• Supporting both CLI driven and UI driven operations
• Broadcom’s role in open source and CNCF AI conformance

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