The HC foundation consists of services and activities that are necessary to achieve the desired end state in terms of automating resource provisioning to achieve application deployments to the hybrid cloud. In this context, the hybrid cloud may include the following:

• VMware vCloud Air, Linux containers, AWS, and other heterogeneous cloud platforms
• On-premise virtualized/cloud and physical infrastructures

This foundation service involves providing the tools and integrations that are necessary to automate the provisioning of infrastructure services (that is, compute, network, and storage) for all deliverable artifact deployments. The design and implementation will be consistent with the agreed upon SDLC process, including proper source artifact management (for example, provisioning blueprints, workflow scripts, and so on).