VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 was released in July 2019 and the biggest news in this release is the addition of public RESTful APIs for common tasks that are performed for workload domains and other day 2 operations. Managing Cloud Foundation in the SDDC manager is incredibly intuitive but customers have significant investment in existing IT and business systems such as vRA or ServiceNow. 

In large scale cloud foundation deployments like I work with in Global Accounts, this will be a heavily used feature because customers now have the ability to utilize existing provisioning workflows in vRA or create new workflows that allow ops teams to orchestrate even higher levels of automation. Some common operational tasks that are available in version 1 of the API are:

• Commission and decommission hosts
• Create and delete workload domains
• Scale clusters
• Manage network pools

Cloud Foundation 3.8 also adds capability for the SDDC manager to patch and upgrade all vRealize Suite components and NSX-T. In previous versions, SDDC manager could deploy vRealize Suite but initial config, patching, and upgrades were handled manually through each individual component. The Cloud Foundation engineering teams has been rapidly deploying enhancements and this version comes just 6 weeks since the last major release.

For further details such as release notes and planning and upgrade guides for Cloud Foundation 3.8, visit VMware Docs.