Broadcom donates Velero to CNCF

Broadcom has donated Velero, a Kubernetes backup and restore project, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox, shifting it into foundation governance. (cncf.io ) Velero backs up Kubernetes cluster settings and persistent storage, then restores them after outages or moves them to another cluster. Broadcom said the project was accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox in March 2026. (velero.io) (blogs.vmware.com) The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox is the foundation’s entry point for early-stage projects. Moving Velero there puts the code under vendor-neutral stewardship instead of a single company’s control. (cncf.io) (news.broadcom.com) Velero has been a VMware Tanzu project on GitHub, and its repository describes it as a tool to back up and migrate Kubernetes applications and persistent volumes. The project was previously called Heptio Ark before it was renamed Velero. (github.com 1) (github.com 2) Broadcom tied the donation to enterprise operations work around Kubernetes, where backup, restore, and migration are part of the day-two tasks that start after a cluster is deployed. At KubeCon Europe 2026, the company paired the Velero move with updates to VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.6. (news.broadcom.com) (techzine.eu) The handoff lands as more Kubernetes infrastructure is being pulled into shared foundations rather than left with single vendors. Broadcom said its engineers remain among the top contributors to Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects and framed the donation as part of a broader upstream strategy. (blogs.vmware.com) (news.broadcom.com) Velero already supports backup of cluster resources, scheduled backups, restore workflows, and storage snapshots through the Container Storage Interface snapshot application programming interfaces. That makes it one of the more practical recovery tools for teams running stateful workloads on Kubernetes. (velero.io 1) (velero.io 2) The project is still shipping new releases while the governance changes. Go Packages lists version 1.18.0 as published on March 2, 2026, and the GitHub releases page shows active maintenance through April 2026. (pkg.go.dev) (github.com) For users, the immediate software does not change as much as the ownership does. Velero remains the same backup tool, but its next steps now run through Cloud Native Computing Foundation processes instead of Broadcom alone. (cncf.io) (news.broadcom.com)