/tags/selfservice/Recent content in SelfService on NPetersenHugoenSat, 04 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0100/posts/vmware-selfservice-portal/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0100/posts/vmware-selfservice-portal/<p>Last month I tried to build a SelfService Portal for VMware vCenter as an alternative to a full automation platform. The goal was to let users provision VMs in minutes, without the overhead that comes with running a full platform. The whole thing runs on Azure services for under $15 per month.</p> <p>I wanted to see how far I could get using GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to generate most of the code, while still building something I understand and can maintain myself.</p> <p><img src="/img/VMware-SelfService-Architecture.png" alt="VMware-SelfService-Architecture (AI Generated)"></p>