Client-Side SDK Generation With VMware Cloud Foundation OpenAPI Specs
Broadcom, Monday, September 7th, 2026
Generating custom client libraries from published VCF OpenAPI specifications, with the practical gotchas.
From VCF 9.0 onward VMware publishes OpenAPI specifications, letting developers generate client libraries in their preferred language.
The guide demonstrates generating a .NET C# SDK with OpenAPI Generator and is candid about the practical obstacles, notably handling specification files large enough to break tooling and deciding how to scope the API surface rather than generating everything.
For automation teams building against VCF, generated clients are considerably more maintainable than hand-written REST calls, and the scoping advice is what makes the approach workable.