saltext.vcf 1.0.0

Salt Extension for VMware VCF infrastructure management (vCenter, NSX, SDDC Manager, VCF Operations, VKS, VMSP)

saltext.vcf

Salt extension for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x. Targets the full VCF stack: vCenter, NSX, SDDC Manager, VCF Operations, VKS (Supervisor), VMSP (mediated), vSAN, and standalone ESXi.

Coverage

• vCenter — REST /api/ for clusters, hosts, VMs, datacenters, datastores, networks, storage policies, content libraries, folders, resource pools, tags, custom attributes, appliance services, KMS providers; pyVmomi/SOAP for alarms, perf, extensions, VM snapshots.
• vSphere 9 Cluster Configuration Profile — desired-state profile API for vCenter-managed clusters (replaces direct ESXi REST).
• NSX — Policy API (segments, tier-0/tier-1, groups, security policies, firewall rules, services, context profiles, NAT, IP blocks/pools, DHCP, edge clusters) and Management API (node, cluster status, transport zones/nodes, compute collections, RBAC).
• SDDC Manager — hosts, clusters, workload domains, vCenters, bundles, network pools, releases, upgrades, certificates, credentials, VMSP service health via /v1/vcf-services.
• VCF Operations — resources, adapters, alert/symptom definitions, active alerts, policies, notifications, recommendations, RBAC (sources/roles/users/groups/privileges), collectors, credentials, super metrics, resource groups, reports, maintenance schedules, tasks, solutions, node status.
• VKS — Supervisor enablement, services catalog, namespaces, VM classes, software lifecycle, compatibility probes, kubeconfig fetch bridge to saltext-kubernetes.
• vSAN — cluster config, disk groups, fault domains, health (SOAP at /vsanHealth).
• Salt Resources framework — vcenter, sddc, nsx, vcfops, esxi, vcf_vm resource types for fleet-style management with grain-based targeting.

~80 execution modules, 27 state modules, 82 REST/SOAP clients across six VCF components.

Quickstart

pip install saltext-vcf

Configure pillar:

saltext.vcf:
  vcenter:
    host: mgmt-vc.example.com
    username: [e-mail]
    password: secret
    verify_ssl: false
  sddc_manager:
    host: sddc-manager.example.com
    username: [e-mail]
    password: secret
    verify_ssl: false
  nsx:
    host: mgmt-nsx.example.com
    username: admin
    password: secret
    verify_ssl: false
  vcf_ops:
    host: ops.example.com
    username: admin
    password: secret
    verify_ssl: false

Run from any minion with the extension installed:

salt-call vcf_vcenter_cluster.list_
salt-call vcf_sddc_domain.list_
salt-call vcf_nsx_segment.list_
salt-call vcf_vcfops_deployment.healthy
salt-call vcf_vcf_services.status_map

Extras

Extra	Adds
[vcenter]	vmware-vcenter SDK for advanced vCenter REST flows
[sddc]	vmware-vcf SDK for SDDC Manager flows
[vks]	saltext-kubernetes + kubernetes for the VKS kubeconfig bridge

pip install 'saltext-vcf[vks]'

Documentation

Full docs at https://salt-extensions.github.io/saltext-vcf/.

Local build:

pip install -e '.[docs]'
make -C docs html
xdg-open docs/_build/html/index.html

Topic guides under docs/topics/:

• Installation
• Configuration
• Resources Framework
• VKS / Supervisor bridge
• vSAN over SOAP
• VMSP mediated access

Examples per component live under docs/examples/.

Development

pip install -e '.[dev,tests,lint]'
pre-commit install
pytest tests/ -q

Live integration tests run against a real VCF lab and live in a separate integration repository; they're not part of the unit test suite here.

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.