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In this guide I will show you to use a Software Components Blueprint to integrate Ansible Playbooks. In this example I am using what I describe as Ansible Enterprise. Meaning, there is no Ansible binary installed on the provisoned VM’s Continue reading vRA with Ansible Server and vRO integration
In vRealize Automation 7 when you are designing software components you may have noticed that there is an option to make the Properties a Computed value. In this guide I wll give you a quick overview of how and why Continue reading vRA 7 Software Components Computed Values Explained
vRealize Automation has a ton of great new features that make it easier than ever to build and manage your hybrid cloud. In this guide I will walk you trough using the latest Cloud Client Command Line utility to export Continue reading How to export vRA 7 Blueprints as code
vRealize Automation has a ton of great new features that make it easier than ever to build and manage your hybrid cloud. In this guide I will walk you trough using the latest Cloud Client Command Line utility to import Continue reading How to import vRA7 Blueprints as code
So today I have been in the lab working on some new blueprints. I will share those later..sigh…now that they are working. My typical workflow when developing a new blueprint is to go through the installation on a fresh VM Continue reading vRA 7 Software Components for Linux Gotcha
Currently only single node and works on RHEL/CENTO7. I am working on a clustered version that I will post soon. Head on over to sample exchange to download it. https://developercenter.vmware.com/samples?id=964
New in vRealize Automation 7 is the ability to create software installation components as part of the new converged blueprint design canvas. If you have been following VMware for some time this is actually a lot of the same code Continue reading vRealize Automation 7 Application Authoring DeepDive
In my last post I showed you how to script a REST API request in vRealize Automation 7. Now let’s close the loop and get the details of that request. In this guide I will show you how to retrieve Continue reading How to get the IP address of a VM in vRealize Automation 7 REST API
As you may or may not know, vRealize Automation features a RESTful API to programmatically interface with the Cloud Management Portal. In this guide I will show you how to create a shell script to request a catalog item. You Continue reading How to script a vRealize Automation 7 REST API request