The New Stack Makers

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmented AI ecosystem. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, the program establishes open, community-driven standards to ensure AI applications run reliably and portably across different Kubernetes platforms. VMware by Broadcom’s vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is among the first platforms to achieve certification.In an interview with The New Stack, Broadcom leaders Dilpreet Bindra and Himanshu Singh explained that the program applies lessons from Kubernetes’ early evolution, aiming to reduce the “muddiness” in AI tooling and improve cross-platform interoperability. They emphasized portability as a core value: organizations should be able to move AI workloads between public and private clouds with minimal friction.VKS integrates tightly with vSphere, using Kubernetes APIs directly to manage infrastructure components declaratively. This approach, al