Overview VMware Identity Manager aka vIDM (soon to be known as Workspace One Access) is a key piece of the vRealize Automation stack. Previous versions of vRA used an embedded build of vIDM within the vRA appliance and allowed the identity management capabilities to scale out as vRA itself scaled. With vRA 8 this is … Continue reading Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
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Deploying vRealize Automation 8
This article is going to cover the basics in deploying vRealize Automation 8.0 using the easy installer. This is an approach which we (VMware) have used before for other applications where the install is delivered as a downloadable ISO which you can mount and run from a desktop machine. This installer within the ISO deploys … Continue reading Deploying vRealize Automation 8
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Custom Unit Tests
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) has its roots embedded firmly with CodeStream and the DevOps for IT management pack that is now no longer supported. Moving code/content between platforms and managing content were several of the main purposes of CodeStream and whilst vRSLCM does a number of other things, it still has a content management … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Custom Unit Tests
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Extending Pipelines
I've been asked to talk about content management and extensibility using vRSLCM at an upcoming customer event so as part of the preparation I decided to mock up some scenarios. This article will cover one of these scenarios and deals with content pipelines and extensibility. What You Should Not Do Before we dive into configuration … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Extending Pipelines
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 5)
5This is the fifth article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 4 of this series I covered capturing and testing content with vRLSCM as well as placing that content under source … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 5)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 4)
This is the fourth article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 3 of this series of articles I covered adding the endpoints into vRSLCM and getting ready for content capture and … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 4)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 3)
This is the third article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 2 of this series of articles I covered setting up Gitlab with users, groups and projects together with granting API … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 3)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 2)
This is the second article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 1 of this series of articles we covered installing Gitlab onto a server, in my case a CentOS 7 virtual … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 2)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 1)
This is the first article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. 1. vRSLCM and Source Control Before we can do anything with source control and vRSLCM we need to have something that will … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 1)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Deleting Requests
This question of how to delete requests that are stuck within vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager has come up a few times, right from version 1.x to the now current version 2.0 (as of time of writing). Quite simply, the product GUI does not offer a way to do this however you can delete requests if … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Deleting Requests
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