VMware Cloud Foundation Automation -Infrastructure Resource Policy Overview

Related Articles VMware Cloud Foundation Automation -Infrastructure Resource Policy Overview Set Your Implementation Up for Success with VCF Jumpstart Workshop VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 60: Infrastructure Modernization, Health, and APIs for Private Cloud With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, we introduced a number of new and exciting features and capabilities to help our customers deliver an agile, performant, and secure self-service private cloud. As part of a private cloud strategy, providing a way to consume the underlying infrastructure services and deliver applications quickly all the while managing governance is crucial. With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), a number of cloud services are available for consumption, such as VM and Kubernetes Cluster services, along with services for database management, continuous delivery pipelines, service mesh, image registry, and much much more. This blog is an overview of some of the core services like VM and Kubernetes services along with how to apply IaaS resource policies to them. Resource policies help ensure configurations such as cluster sizes are compliant. Security postures such as enforcing a baseline pod security level, and disallowing resources to be deployed, are just a few examples of how to use resource policies. Choice of Consumption Models With VCF, Organization Admins can choose how to isolate users and resources using constructs such as Organizations (tenants), Projects, namespaces, etc. Consumers, such as developers and app teams, also have choice in how they want to consume. The graphic below shows two primary methods: Self-Service Catalog and UI/CLI. Single Platform for Building and Managing Apps VMware Cloud Foundation is a single platform for building and managing applications and services for the entire Organization (tenants). IT teams can run and manage diverse workloads, including AI/ML and cloud native applications. Teams can use a modern interface (UI + code) to facilitate the deployment of services such as databases and VMs.