VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0]

Course Description

VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0] provides a structured path through VCF Automation architecture, organizations, projects, regions, Templates, images, flavors. Each module links technical decisions to workload outcomes, failure scenarios, observability, recovery, and controlled change.

The course then moves into Extensibility, event subscriptions, workflows, APIs, Operations integration, dashboards, alerts. Learners inspect automation tenancy model and provider-infrastructure validation, catalog deployment trace and policy decision record, versioned automation workflow and promotion evidence, service-operations dashboard and automated-service runbook to confirm results, explain exceptions, and leave a reproducible decision trail.

The course outcome is the ability to support an automated VCF private-cloud service that provisions governed infrastructure, exposes reusable catalog items, integrates identity and networking, and produces actionable operational insight. Learners finish with a prioritized action plan covering operations, hardening, capacity, resilience, and service improvement.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how VCF Automation architecture, organizations, and projects establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure regions, cloud accounts, identity sources, roles, provider infrastructure, and governance boundaries, then confirm readiness through automation tenancy model and provider-infrastructure validation instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Templates, images, and flavors, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read catalog deployment trace and policy decision record to isolate a template deploying successfully but selecting a noncompliant network profile, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Extensibility, event subscriptions, and workflows with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge APIs, pipelines, source control, custom actions, secrets, versioning, and promotion between environments using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with versioned automation workflow and promotion evidence.
• Investigate a failed day-two action remaining open without rollback or accountable ownership by reviewing Operations integration, dashboards, and alerts before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare service-operations dashboard and automated-service runbook that demonstrates capacity, cost, logs, audit trails, failure recovery, service ownership, and continuous improvement and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

The learning method blends demonstrations, controlled exercises, realistic failures, access and data checks, diagnostic reasoning, acceptance review, and production-readiness planning. Outputs are documented so another practitioner can repeat the test and understand the decision trail.