Developer documentation and SDK release tooling for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Services — the packaging and lifecycle management framework for deploying software services across the VCF Automation fleet.
A VCF Service bundles all configuration, OCI artifacts, and platform integration declarations needed to install, operate, and upgrade a service across one or more vSphere Supervisor clusters — spanning multiple regions and tenant organisations — from a single control plane inside VCF Automation. It is not just a Kubernetes package: it is a complete extensibility contract with VCF Automation that covers fleet-scale deployment, multi-tenancy, RBAC, UI integration, API extensibility, and lifecycle management.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ VMware Cloud Foundation │
│ │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ VCF Automation (VCF-A) │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ Service Manager │ │
│ │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │
│ │ │ VCF Service │ │ │
│ │ │ - RBAC, UI plugin, API endpoints, RDEs, OAuth │ │ │
│ │ │ - Deployed across all target Supervisors │ │ │
│ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │
│ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ manages fleet │
│ ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐ │
│ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ │
│ │ Supervisor │ │ Supervisor │ │ Supervisor │ │
│ │ us-west-1 │ │ us-east-1 │ │ eu-west-1 │ │
│ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
A Supervisor Service is a versioned, lifecycle-managed workload scoped to a single vSphere Supervisor cluster. It can be used standalone or wrapped inside a VCF Service to bring it under VCF Automation fleet management.
| VCF Services | Supervisor Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Fleet — multiple Supervisors, regions, and tenants | Single Supervisor cluster |
| Control plane | VCF Automation Service Manager | vSphere / Supervisor directly |
| Platform integration | Full (RBAC, UI, API, OAuth, RDE, multi-tenancy) | Kubernetes workloads only |
See the Development Guide and the full Table of Contents.
See LICENSE.