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Broadcom Adds Argo and Ubuntu Support to VMware Cloud Foundation

Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2025 conference unfurled a set of developer services for the instance of Kubernetes it has embedded into its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform that includes the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform.

At the same time, Broadcom expanded its alliance with Canonical to include enterprise-grade support for instances of VCF running on top of the Ubuntu OS platform.

The instance of Kubernetes that is embedded into VCF will also now support Chiseled Ubuntu containers, which minimize footprints by removing unnecessary packages, utilities, and libraries to enable faster download times, reduced storage costs, and faster startup.

Finally, Broadcom is working with Canonical to enable faster deployments for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads using precompiled drivers for graphical processor units (GPUs) to both consume infrastructure more efficiently and reduce dependencies on external repositories to download drivers.

Broadcom, in the wake of acquiring VMware, has shifted its platform strategy to place more emphasis on running containerized applications on an instance of Kubernetes that is embedded in VCF. The VMware Tanzu platform, in contrast, is now based on an instance of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment rather than an instance of Kubernetes.

In furtherance of that strategy, Broadcom is now adding a set of developer services to vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) that, in addition to Argo, add support for the Istio service mesh, Postgres and MySQL database and, via a VCF Advanced Cyber Compliance service add-on, support for hardened containers.

Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager for the VCF division of Broadcom, said developer services will make it possible for organizations that have adopted VCF to more easily support application developers without needing to set up separate teams for managing virtual machine and container environments. As Kubernetes and containers become more widely deployed, there is a clear need for operational efficiencies that also address compliance and security concerns, he added.

IT teams will be able to use best GitOps practices using Argo CD, while still being able to apply the controls that IT teams require to centrally manage IT infrastructure. Broadcom is also previewing access to a technical preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent it has trained to automate IT operations tasks and workflows.

In general, Broadcom is clearly making an effort to unify DevOps workflows and IT infrastructure management that within many enterprise IT organizations are typically managed by administrators rather than software engineers. That effort aligns with the rise of platform engineering as a methodology for managing application environments at scale that Broadcom is positioning VCF to address.

It’s not clear to what degree enterprise IT organizations are standardizing on VCF but for its second fiscal quarter Broadcom reported $6.6 billion in infrastructure software revenues, up 25% year over year. Third-quarter fiscal 2025 infrastructure software revenues projected at $6.7 billion, representing a 16% year-over-year increase. Broadcom also announced today that Walmart has agreed to standardize the management of virtual infrastructure on VCF, including providing its developers with access to Kubernetes clusters via VKS.

Daniel Newman, CEO of the Futurum Group, said those results show that despite recent controversies involving changes to the VMware licensing program, most customers are continuing to rely on VMware to manage their IT environments. While there may have been some defections, even many smaller organizations are opting to stay with VMware, he added.

It may be a while before IT organizations unify the management of IT environments. Many DevOps teams were created to provide a more agile approach to building and deploying applications that didn’t rely on a highly centralized IT team. However, many of those same DevOps teams are now spending more time managing IT infrastructure than they are writing code. As such, there is now a clear need to strike a balance between DevOps freedom and the need to optimally manage IT infrastructure.

August 26, 2025
Latest OpenStack Release Extends Scope and Reach of Cloud Platform

The latest edition of the OpenStack framework released this week adds an ability to reserve instances of graphical processor units (GPUs) along with a revamped user interface (UI) that promises to make the cloud management framework more accessible.

In addition, release 2024.2 Dalmatian of OpenStack Ironic adds a runbooks application programming interface (API) through which a series of curated workflows can be defined, along with any ability to manage updates to storage resources more granularly.

Finally, Ironic, a tool for provisioning bare metal servers has been further hardened to better secure passwords. Additionally, Neutron, a network virtualization module, provides access to a manager role to its application programming interface to enable role-based access controls (RBAC), while Nova controller fabric now automatically detects virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) and requires Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections when using SPICE consoles.

Thierry Carrez, general manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, said an OpenStack resurgence that began at the beginning of this year is being driven by three separate trends. The first is the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) organizations are looking for frameworks that make it simpler to manage compute resources across a hybrid IT environment. The extension to the Blazer resource management tool added with this update will make it simpler for IT teams running AI models to manage the allocation of limited GPU resources, noted Carrez.

At the same time, data sovereignty laws are driving more organizations to deploy workloads in on-premises IT environments.

Finally, the changes to VMware licensing terms that Broadcom has enacted have driven more organizations to explore alternatives.

According to Open Infra, there are also more than 45 million OpenStack cores running in production environments, and 487 contributors submitted 7,640 changes over the past six months alone.

It’s not clear to what extent many IT teams are dependent on OpenStack, but as IT environments become more distributed many organizations are looking for ways to centralize the management of IT. OpenStack creates an opportunity to manage multiple platforms using a single team rather than having to hire and retain separate IT staff for every platform employed. While OpenStack itself requires expertise to deploy and maintain, that approach can reduce the total labor cost by reducing the total amount of labor required to manage a distributed computing environment.

One way or another, a reckoning with IT complexity is on the horizon. In theory, advances in AI should make it simpler to manage frameworks such as OpenStack. The issue now is finding a way to make that transition over time. It’s not feasible to switch from one management framework to another overnight.

Of course, there are also new workloads being regularly deployed. Some IT organizations may decide to draw a line in the sand that determines from here on out all new workloads will be managed via OpenStack.

Regardless of approach, organizations are more sensitive to being locked into specific platforms either because of proprietary APIs or onerous contract terms. As such, many decisions made years ago are now being revisited with a more jaundiced eye.

October 4, 2024
Broadcom Updates to VMware Portfolio Streamline DevOps Workflows

Broadcom today extended VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to provide templates that promise to make it simpler for DevOps teams to provide self-service catalogs to developers building applications on top of the private cloud based on an integrated compute, storage and networking platform.

In addition, Version 5.2 of VCF adds support for live patching of the various components, an ability to independently upgrade any Kubernetes cluster that is connected to the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service, an instance of VCF optimized to be deployed in an edge computing environment. These tools simplify migrations from standalone VMware platforms such as vSAN and support for dual data processing units (DPUs) to increase resiliency.

At the same time, Broadcom announced that VMware vSphere is being superseded by VMware vSphere Foundation, an update that adds many of the same capabilities to a platform designed to deploy self-service capabilities along with support for live patching

VCF is at the core of an ongoing effort originally launched by VMware, prior to being acquired by Broadcom, that made it simpler to acquire, install, and manage the entire stack of VMware software. VMware vSphere Foundation, in contrast, provides a less comprehensive suite of software for creating a virtual IT environment.

Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing for the VCF Division of Broadcom, said VCF consolidates 168 products, bundles and editions that were previously offered via more than 9,000 configurations into a subscription service that reduces total cost of ownership by 40% to 50% when compared to a public cloud or a three-tier infrastructure platform. The prices of VCF have been cut in half to make that approach more attractive to customers, noted Shenoy.

Broadcom is looking to counter a perception that the company raised pricing when it eliminated perpetual licenses for VMware software. In reality, VMware was the last major provider of software to still make a perpetual license available, so in that context, the company is now in line with every other provider of software, said Shenoy.

In addition, pricing for VMware software is now more consistent across multiple platforms, he added. Previously, VMware pricing tended to vary widely depending on what platform it was running on, noted Shenoy. Now organizations can more easily port licenses across multiple platforms as they best see fit, he added.

Ultimately, the goal is to provide platform engineers and application developers with a frictionless experience, said Shenoy.
It’s not clear how many organizations today are running VCF compared to VMware vSphere, but regardless of the platform selected Broadcom continues to invest in research and development. Broadcom is reinvesting 15% of the $34 billion in revenue that VMware generated last year in research and development, said Shenoy.

Each organization will need to determine for itself to what degree to continue to rely on the VMware portfolio, but migrating away from any platform is always an expensive proposition. The issue IT teams need to determine is to what degree to make that transition versus alternatively opting to simply build new applications on a rival platform. Regardless of approach, the total cost of IT tends to increase the more platforms an organization needs to support.

June 25, 2024
VMware Previews Spring AI to Accelerate Java Development

At a SpringOne at VMware Explore event this week, VMware demonstrated a tool that uses abstractions to make it simpler to build Java applications that invoke multiple artificial intelligence (AI) components with minimal changes to code.

The goal for the open source Spring AI project is to, for example, make it simpler to swap out AI models using an AiClient interface for invoking OpenAI and Azure OpenAI services. It also adds capabilities that promise to make it simpler for developers to query documentation using generative AI enabled by large language models (LLMs). An additional goal is to extend those capabilities to other Spring projects, including Spring Integration, Spring Batch and Spring Data.

In addition, the Spring command line interface (CLI) has been extended to support Spring AI and the Spring Boot framework has been extended to help set up dependencies and classes more easily.

The AI capabilities are part of several additions made to the widely used framework for building Java applications that address everything from automatically turning off instances of Spring running in a container, also known as scaling to zero, to using virtual threads to call external services in a way that reduces memory consumption.

Those additional capabilities promise to make it more efficient to run Java applications in, for example, a cloud computing environment.

Betty Junod, vice president of product marketing for modern applications and the Management Business Group at VMware, said generative AI capabilities should serve to make Spring more accessible by not having to click around as much to gain answers to questions.

In general, VMware is betting that a larger percentage of the Java applications built using Spring will be deployed on the Tanzu platform the company has built on top of Kubernetes. That platform streamlines the application development process in a way that reduces the cognitive load on developers by eliminating the need to know how to work with YAML files or use Docker Compose to create containers.

Despite the proliferation of alternatives to Java, it remains the primary programming language used by developers to build applications. The challenges involved with learning additional programming languages are high, so most developers would prefer to continue to use Java to build both monolithic and emerging cloud-native applications.

In the meantime, AI is already widely employed to help developers write code faster. AI isn’t going to replace the need for developers, but it will increase the pace at which applications are being developed. As such, DevOps teams will soon see a significant increase in the amount of code moving through DevOps pipelines. The hope is that AI will be applied in a way that enables those DevOps teams to manage increasingly larger codebases.

In fact, the way applications are built and deployed will drastically change now that the AI genie is out of the proverbial bottle. But it remains to be seen how quickly those advances will change the way DevOps is managed at a level of unprecedented scale.

August 25, 2023
IBM to Provide Hybrid Cloud Service Based on VMware Cloud

At the VMware Explore 2023 conference this week, IBM announced that it will soon provide a fully managed service based on a streamlined edition of VMware Cloud.

Brendan Kinkade, vice president for independent software vendors, technology and hybrid cloud partnerships for IBM Global Sales, said VMware is now making available editions of VMware Cloud that are both easier to deploy and manage and, just as importantly, migrate between cloud platforms and on-premises environments as IT teams see fit.

IBM is committed to using that platform to deliver a managed VMware Cloud service that will span hybrid cloud computing environments aligned to an NIST-validated framework, he added. That approach is critical because it will enable IT teams to apply VMware license credits to any instance of VMware Cloud no matter where it is deployed, noted Kinkade.

In addition, the streamlined edition of VMware Cloud doesn’t use proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) to make it simpler to port IT environments to another cloud service or back to an on-premises IT environment whenever necessary, he added.

At the foundation of the hybrid cloud service will be an instance of a multi-tenant vCloud Director console residing on the IBM Cloud. Through the console, IT teams will be able to work with IBM to co-manage application environments.

In addition, IBM is providing a managed IBM Cloud Cyber Recovery (ICCR) Service to better secure cloud computing environments.

It’s not clear how much of IT is now being consumed as a managed service, but the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly increased that number. Many IT organizations are also finding it simpler to rely on a managed services provider (MSP) to manage infrastructure so they can focus more of their time and effort on application development, noted Kinkade.

MSPs are also in a better position to aggregate all the telemetry data needed to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that will be used to automate workflows, he added.

Exactly how DevOps workflows will evolve as organizations rely more on external service providers to manage IT infrastructure is, naturally, a work in progress within many organizations. The main challenge is aligning a unique set of continuous delivery (CD) practices for deploying and updating applications with a provider that has already defined its own workflows.

Nevertheless, given the complexity of those environments, many organizations are not able to hire and retain the IT expertise required to manage it, so the only option may be to rely on an MSP.

Each IT organization will need to decide whether to rely on an MSP, given the total cost of a service. Many organizations often wind up having a mix of workloads managed by internal IT teams and external service providers. The one thing that is certain is that as the pace at which workloads are being deployed in the cloud increases, many internal IT teams are overwhelmed by a level of complexity that will only increase.

August 23, 2023
VMware Preps Generative AI Assistants to Automate IT Workflows

At its VMware Explore 2023 conference today, VMware previewed what will become a suite of intelligent assistants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of a wide range of IT tasks.

Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager for cloud infrastructure at VMware, said VMware will eventually build out assistants for managing individual platforms such as VMware vSphere and the integrated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform through which the company aggregates those offerings into a single platform.

VMware is creating those assistants, also known as co-pilots, using multiple large language models (LLMs) that the company uses to train AI models using code written by site reliability engineers (SREs), said Prasad. That approach ensures that the recommendations being made along with the code generated are of the highest quality, he added.

That approach will enable IT teams to identify configuration drift that might be adversely impacting performance or that could create a cybersecurity risk, for example, noted Prasad. The first of those assistants is being made available in beta for VMware Tanzu, a platform based on Kubernetes. VMware is also building an assistant for its NSX virtual networking software that analyzes security events to generate policies and rules that can be applied to firewalls in real-time as threats are identified.

It will then be up to each IT team to decide whether to implement those recommendations. Over time, it’s clear that the management of IT infrastructure is going to become increasingly automated as confidence in those recommendations increases, he added. In fact, the ultimate goal is to fulfill the promise of ‘lights-out’ IT management, said Prasad.

In effect, advances such as these will lead to the democratization of DevOps workflows as it becomes simpler to manage IT infrastructure at scale. IT organizations will be able to invest more resources in building and deploying applications rather than hiring specialists to manage IT infrastructure, noted Prasad.

In fact, the pace at which applications are built and deployed should dramatically increase in the months ahead, Prasad predicted.

The rise of generative AI creates a unique opportunity for IT teams to become more relevant than ever to their organizations. It will soon be possible to build and deploy a wide range of distributed applications capable of processing and analyzing data at the point where it is created and consumed.

While generative artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the popular imagination, it’s becoming apparent that multiple forms of AI will soon be used together to automate DevOps workflows at levels of unprecedented scale.

Machine learning algorithms, of course, are already used by many organizations to automate everything from analyzing log data to identifying security issues to surfacing patterns in tests made using multiple regression, function and unit testing tools. With the rise of generative AI, it is now possible to automatically generate code and create summaries of reports that multiple stakeholders can more easily understand. Generative AI doesn’t replace the need for previous use cases involving machine learning algorithms. Instead, generative AI makes use of a form of deep learning algorithms to create different types of AI models.

As a result, DevOps workflows will soon be invoking multiple classes of AI models to automate workflows in ways that should enable IT teams to automate processes at unprecedented levels of scale.

August 22, 2023
VMware Looks to GitOps to Drive Edge Computing

At its VMware Explore 2023 event, VMware today unveiled an orchestration tool, dubbed VMware Edge, that promises to simplify the management of edge computing services at scale.

At the same time, VMware has launched a Project Keswick initiative through which it will work with customers to define additional use cases for VMware Edge based on zero-trust principles and GitOps workflows for deploying applications. The company also unveiled a VMware Retail Edge platform based on VMware Edge and is planning to add additional offerings aimed at specific vertical industry segments.

Finally, VMware is making available a managed connectivity service through which it will provide private 4G/5G wireless services.

VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator is based on a tool that VMware created to orchestrate the management of its secure access service edge (SASE) platform. That has now been extended to support a wider range of software running on edge computing platforms.

Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager of service provider and edge for VMware, said the goal is to streamline the management of software-defined edge computing platforms via a single console. Achieving that goal requires the ability to identify and programmatically manage workloads distributed across a mix of networks, he added.

VMware is betting that as more workloads are distributed to edge computing platforms, there will be a greater need to centralize the management of workloads running on platforms that are not always easy to physically access. Less clear, however, is to what degree those edge computing platforms will be managed by IT teams versus operational technology (OT) teams that are usually embedded within a department that manages a specific business process.

However, regardless of who manages those platforms, they will be relying more on GitOps workflows to programmatically provision infrastructure and deploy applications that will need to be regularly updated. In fact, because these platforms are often dispersed across hundreds of physical locations, the need for a pull-based orchestration tool that works asynchronously is critical, said Uppal.

In the longer term, IT teams should also expect artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to be applied in a way that makes edge computing self-healing, he added.

No one can say exactly how many organizations have adopted GitOps to manage the provisioning of both infrastructure and the delivery of applications, but it’s conceivable that edge computing will force the issue. The tricky part will be finding a way to manage those GitOps workflows at the necessary level of scale. Most DevOps teams already struggle with implementing DevOps workflows at scale, so if more workloads are to be distributed across hundreds of edge computing platforms, there will be a much more acute need for automation to consistently deploy, secure and update applications.

Regardless of approach, however, there may come a day when the number of workloads deployed at the edge far outnumbers the number of workloads deployed in the cloud or in a data center. The challenge and the opportunity now is to get ahead of edge computing issues before they inevitably create a set of management issues that will be more difficult to address after applications have already been deployed.

August 22, 2023
VMware Looks to Streamline Multi-Cloud Computing Management

VMware today integrated its console for managing cloud instances with its VMware Cloud Foundation to streamline the deployment of its software in on-premises IT environments.

Announced at the VMware Explore 2023 conference, the latest edition of VMware Cloud will make it simpler to manage multi-cloud computing environments by combining VMware Cloud Foundation Software and VMware Cloud Services into a single platform.

VMware also announced early access to an ESXi life cycle management cloud service for VMware vSphere+ that enables IT teams to centrally manage upgrades across a distributed vCenter environment. Additional updates to vSphere in the upcoming release include doubling GPU capacity per virtual machine.

Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager for cloud infrastructure at VMware, said the goal is to improve the overall pace of innovation; in addition to deploying workloads in on-premises IT environments, organizations are also deploying workloads on multiple cloud computing services.

VMware Cloud is being made available in five editions that can either be managed by an internal IT team, an external services provider or by VMware. In addition, a VMware Ransomware Recovery service based on VMware Cloud is also generally available. Following a breach of an on-premises IT environment, VMware Ransomware Recovery will enable organizations to run production workloads in the cloud until forensics are completed. The company also unveiled a technology preview of cybersecure storage that will integrate recovery workflows with native vSAN snapshots and add support for Google Cloud VMware Engine.

In addition, VMware is adding a managed NSX service delivered via the cloud, dubbed NSX+, that manages instances of the virtual networking software that runs on top of its virtual machine software. There is also now an NSX+ virtual private clouds (VPCs) option that isolates instances of the virtual networking platform.

Finally, VMware is adding a VMware Cloud with VMware vSAN Max, which will make 8.6 petabytes of disaggregated capacity and 3.6 million IOPS per cluster available on demand later this year.

VMware appears to be streamlining the number of platforms IT teams need to acquire to support and manage IT infrastructure at a time when more organizations are trying to navigate increasing economic headwinds.

One way or another, IT teams will need to reduce the cost of IT at a time when IT environments are becoming more complex. VMware is betting that, given its dominance in on-premises IT environments, there will be a natural inclination to deploy more of its software in the cloud to create a more homogenous IT environment that is less complex.

However, it’s not clear whether organizations are willing to pay extra for the privilege. Many organizations are now supporting multiple classes of virtual machines and associated software despite the fact that each additional platform raises the total cost of IT.

In the meantime, many IT organizations are also awaiting the outcome of Broadcom’s effort to acquire VMware before deciding how to centralize the management of multi-cloud computing environments.

August 22, 2023
VMware Streamlines IT Management via Cloud Foundation Update

VMware this week updated its Cloud Foundation platform and rolled up recent updates to the company’s virtualization portfolio all at once.

Version 5.0 of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) encompasses the latest versions of VMware vSphere 8.0u1 for workload management, VMware vSAN 8.0u1 for scale-out storage, VMware NSX 4.1 for networking and VMware vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8.10 (Aria) for cloud management.

In addition, VMware has added a single sign-on (SSO) capability, dubbed Isolated SSO Workload Domains, that enables administrators to configure new workload domains using SSO instances from different providers or platforms via NSX.

Rick Walsworth, director of product marketing for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware, said that as the management of IT continues to evolve in VMware environments, more organizations are opting to update their entire VMware software stack simultaneously rather than attempting to update components individually.

The primary reason for that shift is that the company ensures that all the latest VCF component releases have been thoroughly stress-tested from an integration perspective, he noted.

During uncertain economic times, VMware is seeing an increased focus on simplifying IT environments as IT teams are asked to do more with less, said Walsworth. As such, more organizations are looking to standardize on a stack of infrastructure software that can be managed more consistently, he added.

More organizations are also looking to reduce the total cost of IT by employing the same stack of infrastructure software across hybrid cloud computing environments where workloads are deployed both in on-premises IT environments and public cloud, said Walsworth.

The company is also seeing increased adoption of DevOps best practices to programmatically manage IT environments that need to respond to rapidly changing requirements, he noted. IT teams are looking to work more collaboratively rather than relying solely on specialists to manage specific functions, said Walsworth.

Some of that shift is also being driven by Tanzu, a distribution of Kubernetes that the company makes available as part of VCF, he noted. Most application developers don’t have a preference for a specific Kubernetes distribution, so many organizations view Tanzu as an opportunity to extend their existing management framework to a de facto standard for building the next generation of cloud-native applications, said Walsworth.

VMware is in the midst of being acquired by Broadcom. Nevertheless, VMware this week reported revenues for the first quarter 2023 of $3.28 billion, a 6% year-over-year increase. Subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue for the first quarter was $1.22 billion, an increase of 35% year-over-year. That increase in revenue suggests any concerns about the future direction of the company are not impacting the willingness of IT organizations to continue to rely on VMware.

It may be a while before all the dust settles around Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. In the meantime, however, it’s clear that the way IT is managed in the cloud era is continuing to rapidly evolve regardless of who owns VMware.

June 2, 2023
VMware Brings Java 17 Support to Spring Boot Framework

VMware this week made a Spring Boot 3.0 update for building microservices-based Java applications that is based on the latest long-term support release for the Java Standard Edition (SE) platform.

Michael Minella, senior director of software engineering at VMware, said the latest edition of the framework supports Java 17. The hope is that adding this support will encourage organizations to move from Java 8 to the latest long-term release of the platform without requiring multiple upgrades to other previously released editions of Java SE.

In addition, Spring Boot 3.0 now also natively supports a high-performance Java development kit (JDK) known as GraalVM along with version 6.0 of the Spring framework for building Java applications using OpenJDK, an open source version of Java SE that VMware made available earlier this month.

VMware added support for Micrometer and Micrometer Tracing to improve the observability of Spring applications that will increasingly include multiple microservices dependencies.

Finally, VMware also added support for Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) 10, an open source extension of Java SE that is being advanced under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation.

Minella said support for Java 17 coupled with GraalVM provides a stable foundation for building Java applications that are significantly faster than applications that rely on Java 8—still the most widely used edition of the platform. DevOps teams should begin to adopt a new standard for building and deploying the Java applications that still dominate enterprise IT environments, Minella said.

There is, of course, no shortage of programming languages being used to build enterprise applications. After three decades, however, Java continues to dominate, in large part because of the sheer number of developers that have Java programming skills.

It’s less clear how quickly legacy Java applications will be updated to run on Java 17 and the GraalVM. Now that Java 17 is supported in Spring Boot—the most widely used framework for building Java applications—the pace of adoption for the latest long-term release of the Java SE platform should accelerate in 2023.

In addition, Minella noted the latest edition of the Spring framework will put organizations in a better position to take advantage of forthcoming advances such as Project Loom, an OpenJDK effort to replace threads with a lighter-weight concurrency model based on fibers that are managed via the Java runtime rather than the underlying operating system.

Collectively, these and other technologies will make it less expensive to run Java applications that are significantly faster than previous generations of applications, he added.

Most DevOps teams will find themselves managing a mix of Java applications—constructed using multiple variants of the core Java SE platform—for many years to come. However, it’s probable most new Java applications will be based on Java 17. In addition, there will be efforts to modernize legacy applications based on previous iterations of Java SE. As a result, most DevOps teams working in enterprise IT environments should expect to see an increase in the overall number of Java-based projects using microservices moving through their pipelines in the months ahead.

November 25, 2022