Teams can now bring their own CNI, whether that is Cilium, Calico Enterprise or any CNCF-conformant option.

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VMware's VKS 3.6 removes the constraint of a default CNI, letting platform teams bring their own CNCF-conformant networking plugin — Cilium, Calico Enterprise, or others — into VMware Cloud Foundation. Broadcom's Himanshu Singh explains the philosophy behind this shift at KubeCon Europe: meet teams where they already are rather than forcing proprietary adoption. The update also covers VCF's evolution toward unifying VMs and containers under a single governance model, the integration of private AI workload support, and the convergence of traditional IT admin and platform engineer roles into a single operational framework.

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