As the title of this article suggests, now that I have covered how to get a basic Playbook up and running I am going to start building on this to add some more advanced configuration. Please check out my other articles on getting up and running with Ansible. Getting StartedGetting Started with PlaybooksUsing the Vault … Continue reading Ansible – Expanding Playbook Functionality
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Ansible – Getting Started with Playbooks
Before we dive into creating playbooks I am going to cover briefly what they are so you can get an understanding of how they fit into the Ansible picture. Please check out my other articles that cover getting up and running with Ansible. Getting StartedExpanding Playbook FunctionalityUsing the Vault A Playbook represents a hierarchy of … Continue reading Ansible – Getting Started with Playbooks
Ansible – Getting Started
I decided to write this article out of necessity, finding that most of our (VMware's) products now rely not only on our own product functionality for application deployments, configuration and orchestration but also 3rd party solutions. One of the obvious tie ins for vRealize Automation and VMware Cloud Services when it comes to provisioning and … Continue reading Ansible – Getting Started
Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 2)
In the previous article from this series I outlined an example use case for extensibility via vRO to the Cloud Assembly API. The links to the other articles in this series are below. Part 1 The first thing we are going to look at now that we have authentication into the Cloud Assembly API is … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 2)
Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 1)
Part 2 One of the things that you need to become familiar with as you use the Cloud Automation Services more and more is the Cloud Assembly API (and the CSP API). The API is required for some of the more advanced use cases leveraging extensibility that you might want to implement. A typical extensibility … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Using the API via vRO (Part 1)
Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
The last few deployment tests that I have run in Cloud Assembly have resulted in deployment failures, not because there is anything wrong with the blueprint in question but because the extensibility has failed. Normally I would put this down to mistakes in coding or bad error handling but in this case my workflow is … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
Cloud Assembly – Using vRO to Apply Tags
In a previous article I covered how to add a vRO instance to Cloud Assembly so that it could be used for some form of extensibility. In this article we are going to use the vRO instance to update the properties of a deployed workload in Cloud Assembly as it goes through the build process. … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Using vRO to Apply Tags
Cloud Assembly – Adding Your vRO Instance
This is a very quick article covering how to get Orchestrator added into Cloud Assembly so that it can be used for extensibility. This may seem quite obvious to some people however there are a few gotchas! Deploy an Orchestrator In order to connect in an on-prem vRO instance to Cloud Assembly you first need … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Adding Your vRO Instance
vRealize Operations – Using Instanced Metrics
The last couple of work days have been taken up by doing some knowledge transfer to one of my customers, specifically for the topic of custom dashboard creation. One of the subjects of discussion that has come up several times is around instanced metrics so today I thought I would put together something to help … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Using Instanced Metrics
vRealize Automation – Changing Hostnames
In this article I am going to cover an issue one of my customers was facing with their vRA 7.5 platform with regards to appliance hostnames and how we went about solving it. The Back Story The vRA 7.5 stack had been deployed (no vRSLCM) using the out of the box GUI installer based on … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Changing Hostnames
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