Category: Tech Notes
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Kubernetes and VKS Self-Service in VCF Automation: The All Apps Organization (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 26)
How the All Apps organization in VCF Automation turns VKS clusters and VMs into self-service catalog items, with a real Cluster blueprint, the namespace hierarchy, and the guardrails that keep tenants honest.
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Integrations in VCF Automation: IPAM, ServiceNow ITSM and Config Management (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 25)
How VCF Automation plugs into external IPAM (Infoblox), ServiceNow ITSM and configuration management like Ansible and Puppet, the VM Apps org boundary that decides what is even available, and the API path for everything else.
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Multi-Tenancy at Scale in VCF Automation: Provider, Tenant and Project Design Patterns (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 24)
How to design provider, tenant and project boundaries in VCF Automation 9.1 that hold up at scale: the six consumption patterns, quota envelopes, a Terraform landing zone, and the design mistakes that cost you later.
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Custom Resources and Resource Actions in VCF Automation: Day-2 Operations That Stay Honest (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 23)
How to model external objects as custom resources in VCF Automation 9 and wire day-2 resource actions through VCF Operations Orchestrator, including the read-workflow trap that makes deployments lie about their own state.
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Application and Infrastructure Delivery in VCF Automation: Life After Pipelines (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 22)
Pipelines, the feature once called Code Stream, is removed in VCF Automation 9. Here is the delivery model that replaces it: external CI/CD driving the vmware/vcfa Terraform provider and the API-first deployment endpoints.
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Infrastructure as Code in VCF Automation: The vmware/vcfa Terraform Provider (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 21)
VCF Automation 9 has no single Terraform provider. Here is how the vmware/vcfa, vra and kubernetes providers split the work, the real HCL for orgs, quota and namespaces, and where the provider still hands you back to the UI.
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The VCF Automation API and Token Authentication: Provider, Tenant and the Org-Type Trap (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 20)
Two tokens, three API planes and an org-type trap: how provider and tenant authentication actually works in the VCF Automation 9 API, with real curl for every flow.
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Event Broker Subscriptions in VCF Automation: Blocking, Conditions and Extensibility Patterns (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 19)
Subscriptions are the wiring that connects deployment events to your ABX actions and Orchestrator workflows. Here is how blocking and non-blocking topics behave, why every subscription needs a condition, and the patterns that keep extensibility from wedging your deployments.
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ABX Actions in VCF Automation: Action Based Extensibility and When to Use It (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 18)
ABX gives you short, polyglot FaaS scripts that fire on deployment events in VCF Automation 9. Here is how an action is built, where it runs and what it costs, and the honest verdict on ABX versus VCF Operations Orchestrator.
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VCF Operations Orchestrator in VCF Automation: Workflows for Extensibility (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 17)
How VCF Operations Orchestrator (ex-vRO) plugs into VCF Automation 9 for extensibility: instance models, standing up an external Orchestrator, the rights-bundle trap, event subscriptions and when to use ABX instead.
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Approval, Lease and Day-2 Policies in VCF Automation: Governing the Catalog (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 16)
A self-service catalog without policies is unsupervised spending. Here is how approval, lease and day-2 action policies work in VCF Automation 9, how they combine when several match, and the one missing policy that fills your cluster with zombie VMs.
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Custom Forms and Request Customization in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 15)
How to build catalog request forms in Automation Service Broker for VCF Automation: value sources, external-value Orchestrator actions, field and external validation, and the design mistakes that leave forms half-populated.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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