Increasingly VMware customers are moving beyond infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). One of the trends we are seeing is that more and more customers are automating the delivery of full application stacks. If you are going to deploy an application you will need to configure more network attributes than assigning a VM an IP address and associating it with a vLAN. This blog posts looks at some of the reasons behind this trend and demonstrates how VMware NSX and vRealize Automation can help codify application-centric network and security policies while accelerating the delivery of initial provisioning as well as ongoing lifecycle management.