The Infrastructure Origami Engine: A VCF 9.1 Blueprint for Multi-Tenant Private Cloud

This article presents a mental model called the 'Infrastructure Origami Engine' for designing multi-tenant private clouds with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. It emphasizes separating a governed platform blueprint from tenant-specific configurations, covering networking, storage, compute, identity, security, and operations. The article explains that true tenant isolation requires combining multiple boundaries (identity, policy, networking, etc.) and warns against bespoke designs for each team. It provides a framework for reusable, parameterized environments, aiming to reduce complexity and cost while maintaining control and preventing cross-tenant spillover. This is a technical guide for IT architects and cloud administrators.