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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vRA 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.
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The previous article describes the implementation of the basic interaction between vRealize Orchestrator and Yandex.Cloud. The new version of the package is aimed at managing Yandex instances from vRA through Dymamic Types objects. The necessary processes have been developed, a set of objects for vRA has been created: resources, actions, blueprints.
Continue readingvRO: integration with Yandex.Cloud
vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator integrate seamlessly with a variety of public clouds to create a single enterprise cloud platform. Yandex.Cloud is a new player in this market, and it does not yet have ready-made plugins / packages for integration with many third-party cloud solutions. Therefore, we had to independently develop a package to integrate it with vRO.
Continue readingvRO: working with workflow
As vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator are used, the scope of their tasks is constantly expanding. The number of processes supporting these tasks is growing even faster. Fortunately, any process is just another object that can also be automated.
Continue readingvRO: integration with Harbor
I recently wrote a review on working with Harbor via the REST API. Based on this material, the Harbor and vRealize Orchestrator integration package has been developed . Only a few basic operations are used in day-to-day administration tasks. This minimum set is implemented as a process package for the orchestrator.
Continue readingvRA: PKS automation
PKS uses the PKS CLI to manage clusters; another management option: register PKS with VMware Admiral, for example, built into vRealize Automation and manage clusters from it. However, Admiral will not allow automating work with clusters, this is just a GUI. What if you need the ability to make a single process, combining the creation of a cluster, registering it in DNS, setting monitoring in vROps, creating a project in Harbor and adding rights to users?
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