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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vRA: package for Yandex.Cloud
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.
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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.
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vRealize Automation supports cloud platforms by transforming a private cloud into a hybrid. A more complete and better integration is realized with the Amazon cloud: deploying and managing EC2 instances, executing scripts, creating multi-cloud applications … I suggest you quickly set up and test yourself.
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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.
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Harbor is a corporate registry of containers. Currently, VMware uses Harbor in its container management products: vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS), in addition, you can install it and use it separately. Since management through a graphical interface does not allow automating work, we will get acquainted with managing Harbor through the REST API.
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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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