Infrastructure gets written off as table stakes, but if you've actually shipped software, you know how much pain comes from the friction between layers of the stack. In this RedMonk Conversation, Rachel Stephens sits down with Jay Thontakudi, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Broadcom, to dig into why the partnership between VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Canonical is more than "Linux runs on VMware."

The conversation gets at a problem most enterprises quietly live with: developers build on Ubuntu, then watch their code land on a different Linux distribution in staging and production. Jay and Rachel talk through what it means to close that gap, and why treating the hypervisor and the OS as one supported thing rather than two vendors pointing fingers is as much a security story as it is a developer experience one.

For additional information please visit:
- https://vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vmware-cloud-foundation
- https://canonical.com

This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.

Show notes: https://redmonk.com/videos/ubuntu-on-vcf/

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:06 - What is VCF?
03:55 - The Broadcom & Canonical Partnership
05:58 - Why Ubuntu? Bridging the Dev-to-Production Disconnect
08:18 - Security & Stability: A Unified Stack and Support Model
10:12 - Why Developer Experience is Security
11:21 - VMware's Open Source Strategy
15:24 - Conclusion & Upcoming Technical Deep Dive

Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF

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Beyond the Hypervisor: Developing with Ubuntu on VCF