Overview For many years the VMware Orchestration platform (i.e. vRealize Orchestrator or vRO) has been leveraging JavaScript as its scripting language of choice. Any out of the box content and customer provided custom content has been created in JavaScript leveraging plugins to expose external product capabilities that can be leveraged via JavaScript objects, properties and … Continue reading vRealize Orchestrator – Let’s Talk Polyglot
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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
Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks Re-Visited
Overview In a previous article I covered implementing VMware Webhook Shims functionality using the source on https://github.com/vmw-loginsight/webhook-shims. As I previously stated, this is not officially maintained so it's a "use at your own risk" scenario. I was recently contacted by a customer asking how they would go about leveraging a single webhook shims server with … Continue reading Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks Re-Visited
Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks
A few years ago an internal side project within VMware generated a mechanism to trigger calls to other VMware and 3rd party products from vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations that were not natively supported within either product. This was known as Webhook Shims and still exists to this day on Github (https://github.com/vmw-loginsight/webhook-shims). Recently one … Continue reading Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks
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 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 – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator
This article will walk you through getting the latest version of the "Management Pack for vROPs" installed and working, and get you on your journey to expanding out the functionality within vRealize Operations. What Is It? The management pack is a software update for vROPs that does several things including: Allowing visibility into vRO so … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator
Dynamic Types
Dynamic Types have always seemed to be a mystery to alot of people who use vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). Sometimes people don't understand why you might need them and other times they just seem way to complex to figure out how they work and how to implement them. What and Why Dynamic Types enables you to … Continue reading Dynamic Types
vRO with PowerShell & CredSSP
In this post I will show you how to integrate a PowerShell host into vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) leveraging CredSSP. Throughout my time at VMware I have worked on many automation projects and most (if not all) of them have had a requirement to re-use PowerShell scripts that already exist. Customers just don't lik re-working stuff … Continue reading vRO with PowerShell & CredSSP
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