When it comes to scaling tenant-ready automation on VMware Cloud Foundation, every infrastructure team hits the same wall: onboarding new tenants is either too manual or too brittle. We built the Tenant Onboarding Workflow Builder to change that.

This drag-and-drop simulation tool lets you rapidly prototype and export tenant onboarding workflows—no PowerCLI experience or YAML syntax memorization required. Whether you're provisioning a namespace, configuring NSX segments, or triggering an ArgoCD sync, this tool helps you visualize the automation flow and export it into formats that plug directly into your GitOps pipelines.

This tool ties directly into the topics we’ve covered in the VCF Automation Blog Series, especially around:

• GitOps-based lifecycle automation
• Role-based access control for multitenant environments
• DevSecOps-ready onboarding blueprints for your platform team

​Let’s walk through how it works—and how it can help you simplify tenant activation, reduce manual error, and enforce governance from day one.

VCF Automation Series:

• This Is the Missing Piece in Your VCF 9.0 Automation Strategy: Red Hat Ansible
• STOP Deploying VCF Wrong: Unlocking Tenant-Ready Workflows with GitOps & CI/CD
• STOP! Your VCF Automation Is a Security Time Bomb (Unless You Do THIS)

VCF 9.0 Automation gives us a powerful foundation for multi-tenant self-service infrastructure. But to operate like a true internal platform-as-a-service, we need:

• Version control of blueprints and workflows
• Consistent deployment across environments
• Integrated approval and testing processes

This is where GitOps and CI/CD pipelines come in. By storing VCF Automation blueprints, Aria Orchestrator workflows, and even Ansible playbooks in Git—and connecting them to your CI/CD tooling—you bring repeatability, collaboration, and traceability into the heart of your private cloud.

VMware vSphere 8 is the latest edition to the VMware vSphere family. As you already know, by consolidating physical servers and workloads onto a smaller number of physical hosts, vSphere can help reduce hardware costs, increase efficiency, and improve agility. In this blog, I'll cover the prerequisites for installing vSphere 8, discuss some of the benefits of using this platform, and walk through a high-level install. This is intended for beginners to VMware.