The best VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) alternatives

Cloudify suits organizations moving to public cloud or cloud-native architecture and automating infrastructure and edge resources.

Terraform Community Edition suits practitioners who want a downloadable tool for infrastructure work.

Pulumi is for engineers who want to manage infrastructure in general-purpose languages across supported cloud providers.

Cloud 66 suits developers and teams deploying supported applications to their own cloud accounts, hybrid environments or servers.

Cloudforet suits businesses managing public and private clouds that want centralized inventory, monitoring, and automation.

Canonical OpenStack suits organizations that want to host applications in their own data centers and provide teams with on-demand infrastructure.

Cycloid may suit development teams seeking self-service infrastructure workflows with governance controls.

CloudStack is for cloud solution providers, managed service providers, telcos, and enterprises building public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.

Juju suits teams managing application lifecycles across cloud, Kubernetes, virtual-machine, or bare-metal infrastructure.

It suits organizations managing VMs and Kubernetes alongside existing server and storage investments.

Scalr suits platform engineers building and managing platforms at scale while enabling developer self-service.

CloudBolt is aimed at platform engineering, IT operations, and finance teams managing cloud environments at scale.

ManageIQ suits teams seeking an open-source, self-hosted way to inventory and manage connected infrastructure.

OpenNebula suits organizations managing cloud or virtualization infrastructure across on-premises, public-cloud, or edge environments.

It suits organizations managing HVM and VMware together or planning a phased VMware migration.

Barbican suits OpenStack operators who need to provision and manage secrets through an API and configure software or hardware-backed stores.

Crossplane suits platform engineering teams building self-hosted control planes on Kubernetes.

It suits organizations managing infrastructure events, service health, and alert workflows across multiple systems.