VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 72: From VI Admin to Cloud Provider – Building Your First Self-Service Catalog with VCF 9.0

About the VCF Breakroom Chat Series Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 72: From VI Admin to Cloud Provider - Building Your First Self-Service Catalog with VCF 9.0 From Tickets to Clicks: Driving Real Consumption in Your Self‑Service Private Cloud VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 69 - Beyond vRA + NSX: Delivering Cloud-Native Networking with VCF 9 Virtual Private Clouds Welcome to another exciting episode of the VCF Breakroom Chats! In this latest video feature, we’re joined once again by Vincent Riccio, Product Marketing Engineer for the VCF Division at Broadcom, alongside Alina Thylander. This time, they explore how VI Admins can take the leap into becoming Cloud Providers by building their first self-service catalog with VCF 9.0. Together, they unpack how automation transforms the developer experience—moving away from slow, ticket-driven provisioning to on-demand access where VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and even GPU nodes can be spun up in minutes. You’ll hear how organizations are reporting dramatic reductions in ticket volume, faster release cycles, and reclaimed engineering hours that fuel innovation. Vincent and Alina also dive into why supporting UI, CLI, and API is critical for private cloud adoption, showing how VCF 9.0 empowers both low-code users and cloud-native DevOps teams from a single platform. The conversation continues with a demo of publishing blueprints into the self-service catalog and provisioning them through both the portal and declarative API, before wrapping up with strategies for designing safety guardrails—ensuring broad self-service access without compromising capacity, cost, or compliance. Don’t miss this practical and inspiring discussion on how VCF 9.0 helps you evolve from VI Admin to Cloud Provider while delivering secure, efficient, and flexible cloud services. Want to learn more about VCF Automation? Check out the VCF Automation web page for more resources. Read this blog post: Private Cloud Redefined: Deliver a Unified Cloud Consumption Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Explore VMware Cloud Foundation Automation by the Numbers with the Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study Download the Self-Service Private Cloud for Dummies Guide This webinar series focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). In this series, we share conversations with industry-recognized experts from Broadcom and with solution partners and customers. You’ll gain relevant insights whether you’re an IT practitioner, IT admin, cloud or platform architect, developer, DevOps, senior IT manager, IT executive, or AI/ML professional. If you are new to the series, please check out our previous episodes.