Velero Going CNCF Isn't About Backup. It's About...

The Velero CNCF backup announcement at KubeCon EU 2026 was framed as an open source governance story. Broadcom contributed Velero — its Kubernetes-native backup, restore, and migration tool — to the CNCF Sandbox, where it was accepted by the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Most coverage treated this as a backup story. It isn't. Velero moving to CNCF governance is a control plane story disguised as an open source announcement. And if your team is running stateful workloads on Kubernetes, the