vRO (VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator, formerly vRealize Orchestrator) is one of the best automation tools. It allows you to connect any information systems built on different technologies and interacting via different protocols into a single system. For the most common systems and protocols, there are already ready-made plug-ins (plug-in modules) and/or process packages that provide vRO with access to the functions of these IT systems.
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vRO: ManageIQ Management Suite
Initial setup of IT systems often requires a very large amount of configuration. Creating a private cloud on ManageIQ is a very good example. While setting up infrastructure in ManageIQ is a one-time task that usually does not require automation, creating hundreds of teams, their projects, setting up quotas and rights is not a task for manual execution. Fortunately, all ManageIQ functions are available via REST API requests.
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To work with remote devices via SSH, Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) has an SSH Plug-in. However, this plugin does not work as expected. It implements SSHHostManager and SSHHost objects and has a set of host management processes. But all the useful work is performed by the SSHSession object, which is not related to SSHHost objects.
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The previous article described the vRealize Automation phpIPAM integration plugin. To organize efficient work with phpIPAM, you will need a package for vRealize Orchestrator, this will allow you to use IPAM in automation processes. The package includes a set of processes for calling the most requested phpIPAM functions.
Continue readingvRA 8: quick guide to vracli
A compilation of the most commonly used commands for managing vRealize Automation 8: сommands from various sources (vRA online help, VMware knowledge base, vracli help system, support correspondence) are collected and organized in one place.
Continue readingvRO: vRA 8 Management Pack v2
In the middle of 2020, a plugin for managing vRealize Automation appeared in vRO, but its functionality is not enough to work with vRA: most tasks are still solved only through the REST API. I propose to use a ready-made package, it is constantly being finalized and already includes more than 100 different processes.
Continue readingvRA 8: Terraform as a Service
VRealize Automation 8.2 introduces an exciting new feature – the ability to provide Terraform as a service. It expands the vRA directory by adding cloud-based Terraform manifest templates. And Terraform adds an orchestrator, negotiation engine, and vRA lease management.
Continue readingTerraform + vRA. Custom deployment
Terraform vRA provider’s capabilities for creating deployments are not limited to working with cloud templates and catalog items . Deployments can be created entirely from scratch by building them as a constructor from a variety of resources. Which of the following methods is the best? Let’s first analyze the latter, then compare all three options.
Continue readingTerraform + vRA. Blueprints
The article Terraform + vRA. Quickstart a new deployment is created from an item published in the vRA directory. This is the easiest way to work with vRA from Terraform, but it is not flexible enough – there is no way to change the template schema, the deployments will be the same as the Cloud Assembly administrator decided. Terraform allows you to create your own cloud templates and deploy deployments from them.
Continue readingTerraform + vRA. Quick start
The vRealize Automation platform allows you not only to organize the work of the cloud, but also to work with it, describing the infrastructure as code (Incfastructure as Code – IaC ). One of the most common tools that implements this model and is already integrated with vRA is Terraform. Getting started with how Terraform and vRA 8 work together.
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