Modern Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation Part 1: Push-Button Infrastructure Provisioning

Source: VMware Blog

Introduction

In a former life, I successfully automated ESX rollouts, livestock‑style in what we’d call a “vSphere only” environment. The project was to automate the process of ESX bare‑metal host provisioning: storage zoning, bare metal installation, ESX configuration, vCenter import, post‑vCenter configuration, iPAM/CMDB and monitoring registration, and so on. Upon project completion, we could provision an …