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.
Continue readingvRO: Working with SSH plugin
To work with remote devices via SSH, Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator – vRO) 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 (vRO), 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: phpIPAM plugin
When changing the IPAM supplier, it is necessary to quickly integrate the new IPAM with other information systems. Our main clients with IPAM are the private cloud on vRealize Automation and the vRealize Orchestrator process automation system. This article describes the implementation of the vRA 8 plugin for phpIPAM.
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: plugin SolarWinds IPAM
Early tests of migrating virtual machines from vRA7 to vRA8 showed that migrated machines do not register with the integrated IPAM. You won’t be able to use it on subnets where there is already a VM – an external IPAM is required. Our SolarWinds IPAM does not have a ready-made integration with vRA8, so we developed the plugin ourselves.
Continue readingvRO: vRA 8 Management Pack
Continuing smooth migration to vRealize Automation 8, API control is next in line. In vRO 7, the vCAC and vCACCAFE plugins were used to manage vRA, in the 8th version, only the REST API was used. There is no package from VMware yet, but processes are needed right now. To save time at the start, I suggest starting with a small set of basic processes.
Continue readingvRA 8: Integration with Polemarch
The previous two articles covered how vRealize Automation 8 works with Ansible Open Source. Our infrastructure already uses Polemarch to work with Ansible, but there is no integration with it in vRA 8. In order not to wait for the development of integration from VMware, we will do it ourselves using Custom Resources and Dynamic Types.
Continue readingvRA 8: Ansible Integration
Let’s start testing new features and preparing to migrate to vRealize Automition 8. Our vRA 7.x installation uses software components extensively to configure our servers. Therefore, the main question is how to configure the server if the software components are no longer there? vRA 8 offers several solutions: cloud-init, Ansible Tower and just Ansible (on a remote SSH server).
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