vCF Automation 9.x command line

[FredGSanford]

What happened to commands like vracli and kubectl?  Thanks.

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[Shen88]

@FredGSanford,

You can automate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) using two powerful command-line tools: the VCF CLI and VCF PowerCLI. Each serves different automation needs depending on your environment and scripting preferences. If you're scripting in PowerShell and managing infrastructure, VCF PowerCLI is your go-to. If you're focused on Kubernetes and workload clusters, VCF CLI is more appropriate.

More details are available in the [VCF PowerCLI 9.0 blog] https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2025/06/24/introducing-vcf-powercli-9-0/

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/building-your-cloud-applications/getting-started-with-the-tools-for-building-applications/installing-and-using-vcf-cli-v9.html

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Thank you!

Regards,
Shen
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[FredGSanford]

Thanks, Shen.  I see where you can run kubectl get pods -n prelude after sudo su -.  Is there no way to configure the VMware Management Services Platform appliances or is that all done thru Fleet management now?  I was thinking of commands like 

vracli vrli set https://HOSTNAME:9543

vracli ntp show-config

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[FredGSanford]

Per VMware, vracli has been removed in VCFA, but is still available in external Orchestrator.  kubectl needs to be run as root.

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