You needed a Kubernetes platform. They sold you a private cloud bundle.

Broadcom consolidated 8,000 VMware SKUs into four bundles and buried Kubernetes inside VCF. Codiac gives you what you actually wanted: unified container management, fleet observability, and turnkey deployments â without paying for vSAN, NSX, and Aria along the way.

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45 services. Zero YAML files. That's not a pitch â it's a customer.

Every choice Broadcom has removed from you

What you deploy

TKG standalone eliminated. Must use VKS inside VCF.

What you pay for

Standalone K8s eliminated. Must buy full VCF bundle.

How long you commit

Annual or multi-year â your choice. Now 3-year minimum. Mandatory.

Your core count floor

Was 16-core minimum. Now 72-core. 4.5x.

Your deployment model

TMC SaaS was an option. Now forced to self-managed.

Your renewal timeline

Renew late? 20% penalty. Non-negotiable.

Your upgrade timeline

vSphere 7 EOS Oct 2025. Upgrade or lose patches.

Your negotiation leverage

"Take it or leave it." â multiple customer reports

This is what vendor lock-in looks like when the vendor stops pretending.

You're not the only one who noticed

95%

of VMware shops actively planning to reduce their footprint â Portworx / Pure Storage, 2025

74%

exploring VMware alternatives â Gartner Peer Community, 2024

15%

already churned in year one â ETR, January 2025

710

new customers per quarter at Nutanix alone (18-quarter high) â Nutanix Q2 FY2025 earnings

178%

customer growth in OpenShift Virtualization â Red Hat, 2024

70%

of VMware customers projected to migrate 50%+ of workloads by 2028 â Gartner

Six independent surveys. Different methodologies. Different sample frames. Same conclusion: the installed base is leaving. The only variable is timing.

Where is Tanzu going? Even Broadcom isn't sure.

Tanzu / VCF Roadmap

Tanzu brand Being removed from VCF naming

K8s strategy "We have disassociated ourselves from Kubernetes"

Next major version Unknown

2027 renewal pricing Unknown

Long-term trajectory CA Technologies pattern? Symantec pattern? Unknown.

Codiac Roadmap

Product focus Kubernetes-only. That's it.

Architecture CNCF-native. Any cluster, any cloud, any version.

Fleet Observability v2.5 June 2025

Pricing Published. No bundles. No minimums.

Pure-play K8s management Single product. Full focus.

You plan infrastructure on 2â5 year horizons. You cannot plan on a vendor that won't tell you where the product is going â or whether the product will exist.

Codiac restores what the bundle took away

Choose your cloud: AWS, Azure, any CNCF K8s. No VCF dependency.

Choose your scale: No core minimums. No forced bundling.

Choose your commitment: No 3-year mandatory lock-in.

Choose your deployment: SaaS, self-managed, or air-gapped.

Choose your timeline: Onboard in minutes. Migrate at your pace.

Keep your Kubernetes: We didn't "disassociate" from it. We built around it.

They said take it or leave it. Leave it. Start migrating today.

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45 services. Zero YAML files. That's not a pitch â it's a customer.