I recently demonstrated how to automate the configuration of the VCF Automation (VCFA) Provider Portal using the new Terraform Provider for VCFA. You can also use the same provider to configure your VCFA Organization Portals.

In this blog post, I will use the Terraform Provider for VCFA (TF4VCFA) to configure a specific VCFA Organization Portal with an External Identity Provider (IdP), which can be super helpful if you need to manage multiple IdPs for each VCFA Organizations. The current release of the TF4VCFA only supports configuring an OIDC or LDAP resource, but VCFA does have support for OIDC, LDAP and SAML IdPs.

Since I use Keycloak as my IdP of choice, I will be demonstrating how to setup the OIDC IdP within VCFA.

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I recently rebuilt my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lab environment to run the latest VCF 9.0.1 release. While most of the deployment and configuration has been fully automated, I was dreading the VMware Cloud Foundation Automation (VCFA) setup, mainly as the initial configuration can be a bit involved.

Having some experience with configuring VCFA manually, I wanted to take the opportunity to automate as much of the setup as I could, so the next that I need to rebuild, it is not an issue for me, which is typically the case as I like to automate everything!

My automation approach was going to be leveraging the newly published Terraform Provider for VCFA, this was on my todo list but I finally got a chance to play with it over the weekend in my lab.

I was blown away at how the automation was at configuring VCFA, the same manual tasks could  easily 20min+ and using the TP4VCFA, it was done in under 30 seconds! 🤯

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