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.
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vRA 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: 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 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.
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.
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