VMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management

Usage and customer feedback during the coming months and weeks will determine whether VMware has managed to pull off a remarkable R&D feat: With the general availability release of Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, VMware has ostensibly achieved what has been a sore missing point in DevOps for a number of years.

That is, a platform that can allow containers on a Kubernetes infrastructure and virtual machines (VMs) to run side by side in an infrastructure in which neither benefits from all the capabilities both have to offer. In…