The Automation Service Broker Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) enables users to create supervisor namespaces and then provision virtual machines and other deployable workloads.

Supervisor Namespaces are vSphere-based Kubernetes entities that enable you to provision vSphere workloads, such as vSphere pods, TKGs, and VMs. Different projects can have access to different supervisor namespaces classes that users can use to provision new supervisor namespaces. Administrators can configure each of the assigned supervisor namespace classes with different configurations based on the project needs.

Note: A VMware Aria Automation administrator might have already created a Supervisor Namespace by deploying a catalog item that is backed by a template with CCI resources in Automation Assembler. See Using the CCI elements in VMware Aria Automation templates.

Prerequisites

A cloud administrator must configure CCI for VMware Aria Automation users. See Cloud Consumption Interface setup and configuration.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Automation Service Broker, click the Consume tab and select Supervisor Namespaces.
    To create a new namespace, you start on the Getting Started with supervisor namespaces of the Supervisor namespace home page. Both pages provide access to components based on user profiles. Each project configured for you provides access to one or more namespace classes that you can use to provision a supervisor namespace.
    • If there are no existing Supervisor namespaces that you can access the Getting Started with supervisor namespaces page appears. Click New Namespace.Click new namespaces to add a Supervisor namespace.
    • If there are existing Supervisor namespaces that you can access, the Supervisor namespace home page appears. Click New Supervisor Namespace.
  2. On one of the available Namespace classes, click Create to begin creating a namespace based on that class. Namespace classes function as templates for namespaces.
    CCI namespace create page
  3. Create a namespace.
    • For Name and Description, enter basic identifying information for the project.
    • For Region, select a regions based on your project region entitlement set by the cloud administrator. Regions are grouping mechanisms created by administrators that group Supervisor clusters across one or more vCenters.

    cci create namespace dialog

  4. Click Create.
    The namespace appears on the list of namespaces for the applicable project. The Cloud Consumption Interface will select the appropriate supervisor within the specified region to create the namespace for the infrastructure resources specified.

What to do next

After you create a namespace, click it to view the options for creating and working with workloads within that namespace. The namespace includes services that help you to create workloads. For example, you can click the Virtual Machine service to view existing virtual machines and initiate a wizard to help you create a new virtual machine.

Users with the appropriate privileges can view more details about a supervisor namespace by clicking the Supervisor Namespaces tab on the Infrastructure > Resources > Supervisors page.