Introducing the Tenant Onboarding Workflow Builder: Simulate VCF Automation with Zero YAML Anxiety

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)

Example

You're an enterprise architect for a global financial services company. The IT team is onboarding a new tenant called "PaymentsOps" into the organization's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 environment using a GitOps-driven pipeline with RBAC enforcement.

Workflow Simulation in the Builder

The architect uses the drag-and-drop UI to define each onboarding step:

1. Create namespace: paymentsops-dev
2. Assign RBAC role: devops-engineer
3. Provision Tanzu Kubernetes cluster: tkg-cluster-paymentsops
4. Configure NSX segment: nsx-segment-paymentsops
5. Apply resource quota: 4 CPUs, 16GB RAM
6. Bind service accounts to secret vault
7. Create GitOps folder structure in GitLab
8. Trigger ArgoCD sync for tenant workload

1. Exported YAML Template 

workflow:
- tenantName: "PaymentsOps"
- namespace: "paymentsops-dev"
- step: "Create namespace"
- step: "Assign RBAC role"
- step: "Provision Tanzu Kubernetes cluster"
- step: "Configure NSX segment"
- step: "Trigger ArgoCD sync"

2. Exported PowerCLI Script 

# PowerCLI Workflow
Write-Host "Tenant Name: PaymentsOps"
Write-Host "Namespace: paymentsops-dev"
Write-Host "Step 1: Create namespace"
Write-Host "Step 2: Assign RBAC role"
Write-Host "Step 3: Provision Tanzu Kubernetes cluster"
Write-Host "Step 4: Configure NSX segment"
Write-Host "Step 5: Trigger ArgoCD sync"

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Why This Matters

This tool:

• Helps platform engineers visually simulate and standardize tenant onboarding steps.
• Allows easy export to GitOps workflows or manual execution in PowerCLI.
• Ties directly into your VCF + GitOps + RBAC blog series, making your educational content actionable.

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Tenant Onboarding Workflow Builder

Use this drag-and-drop interface to simulate the onboarding of a new tenant into a VMware Cloud Foundation-powered environment. When finished, export your workflow as a YAML or PowerCLI template for GitOps integration.