Broadcom and Canonical are strengthening VMware Cloud Foundation with Ubuntu open source to boost security, efficiency, and AI-ready innovation for enterprise cloud deployments.
Broadcom Inc. and Canonical have expanded their collaboration at VMware Explore 2025 to optimise VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Canonical’s open source software, enabling enterprises to ship modern container-based and AI applications faster, more securely, and at lower cost.
By combining Canonical’s trusted open-source innovation with VCF, the industry’s first unified private cloud platform, the partnership positions open source as the backbone of enterprise-grade security, efficiency, and scalability in modern private clouds. Ubuntu, the world’s leading Cloud OS, and Canonical’s lightweight chiseled containers are at the core of this integration.
“Broadcom has delivered VCF as the industry’s first unified private cloud platform for modern private clouds. Canonical is the trusted leader in open source innovation and the publisher of Ubuntu, the number one Cloud OS,” said Paul Turner, vice president of products, VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom. “Together, our partnership will help customers that are building Kubernetes-based modern applications improve developer efficiency, manage security risks, and simplify AI workload deployment.”
“Canonical is partnering with Broadcom to address a long-standing question from customers: innovate or stay secure?” added Regis Paquette, SVP global sales alliances, channels and industry verticals at Canonical. “Now, by bringing enterprise-grade Ubuntu and chiseled Ubuntu containers to the VCF platform, organizations can both innovate at speed and get the reliable security maintenance they need to drive the next wave of enterprise and AI innovation.”
The enhanced offering brings:
- Enterprise-grade support with Ubuntu Pro and Kubernetes containers integrated into VCF, with expedited security patching.
- Chiseled Ubuntu containers for Python, .NET, and Go, enabling lighter images, faster transfers, and smaller attack surfaces.
- Precompiled GPU drivers in Ubuntu images, simplifying AI deployments in air-gapped environments while eliminating on-node driver compilation.
This collaboration directly addresses customer challenges of developer efficiency, container security risks, and AI workload deployment, reinforcing open source as the strategic foundation for enterprise cloud modernisation.
