Which Self-Service capability allows for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)?

The Calm Self-Service Domain-Specific Language (DSL) lets administrators and developers define complete Calm blueprints in human-readable YAML/JSON files, version them in Git, and execute them from the CLI or CI/CD pipelines. Because every element of an application—VMs, networks, credentials, runbooks—is represented as code, the DSL provides true Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) capability inside Nutanix Self-Service. The other capability groupings focus on orchestration, marketplace catalogues, or modernization tooling, none of which intrinsically deliver IaC.

A. Application Development and Modernization – Focuses on container & micro-service lifecycle, not on expressing infrastructure in code.

B. Unified Multi-Cloud Orchestration – Enables cross-cloud deployment and governance but does not expose a code-based definition language.

C. Marketplace and Application Management – Provides curated blueprint catalog and lifecycle operations, not a mechanism to author infrastructure definitions as code.

1. Nutanix Calm Administration Guide v3.8, “15 Calm DSL — Infrastructure-as-Code,” pp. 227-230.

2. Nutanix Calm DSL Guide v2.6, Section 1.1 “Using Calm DSL for IaC,” p. 4.

3. Nutanix Calm Data Sheet (2020), p. 2, paragraph “Calm DSL brings full Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities to Nutanix.”

4. Nutanix Calm Technical Overview (Nutanix University Courseware, NCP-MCA), Module 3 slide 18, “Calm DSL = IaC”.