All in all, Cloud Foundation 4.0 seems to be a solid version upgrade, with a lot of promise. The tight integration between Cloud Foundation and vSphere with Kubernetes, coupled with the other managementment tools already available from VMware should prove to be a solid foundation (pun intended) for anyone looking to provide both traditional virtualization and container workloads in their on-premises datacenters going forward. The problem, in my not so humble opinion, with this is that vSphere with Kubernetes is (for now?) only available through Cloud Foundation 4.0. That is a very limiting form factor for delivery, and something that might just slow the adoption rate for it considerably.

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