Overview Using vRealize Automation 8 (either SaaS or On-Prem) directly via the GUI or even the REST API is all well and good but what about if you have slightly different requirement such as creating and consuming constructs and content as code. One of the major selling points of vRA is the IaC use case … Continue reading vRA with Terraform
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vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Overview This article is all about leveraging the static network assignment construct in vRA Cloud/8 Cloud Assembly blueprints and the impact this has (currently) on provisioning vSphere VMs. This topic seems to cause lots of head scratching and issues, really because currently if you try and leverage static address assignments (i.e. asking vRA to assign … Continue reading vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
Overview Today I thought I'd get back to vRealize Automation 8, in particular leveraging extensibility. Previously I have shown some examples of breaking out of the provisioning lifecycle to perform some external operations (CMDB updates etc.) however this time I want to look at how you can augment the provisioning process with information from external … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
Cloud Assembly – Extensibility with ABX (FaaS) – Part2
This is the second article in my mini series covering Cloud Assembly extensibility via ABX (Action Based Extensibility). Links to the other articles in the series are listed below: Part 1Part 3 In this article I am going to lay out an example extensibility scenario and start planning out a solution that will use ABX. … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Extensibility with ABX (FaaS) – Part2
Integrating and Using Ansible with VMware Cloud Assembly
If you have been following my Ansible articles (https://vnuggets.com/category/3rd-party-solutions/ansible/) that covers getting up and running then you should be comfortable with the process of building a Playbook to apply configuration to an existing machine. In this article we are going to look at bringing Ansible and VMware Cloud Assembly together to provide a way to … Continue reading Integrating and Using Ansible with VMware Cloud Assembly
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 – 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
Cloud Assembly – Deleting Orphaned Resources
The VMware SaaS offering for cloud services (Cloud Automation Services or CAS for short) has been bubbling away for a while now and was moved to GA status in mid January. I won't cover the finer details here but suffice to say CAS is a suite of SaaS products. Alot of people within VMware (myself … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Deleting Orphaned Resources
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