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In this guide I will show you how to use the vRA 7 REST API to perform day 2 actions on a VM. This is common for users or developers that want to programmatically control the VM’s provisioned from vRealize Automation.
In this guide I will show you how to use the vRA 7 REST API to delete a deployment. This is common for users or developers that want to programmatically delete a deployment of single or multi-machine blueprints. Pre-Reqs Already provisioned vRA 7 Blueprint with Destroy Deployment entitled See my Continue reading How to Delete a Deployment with the vRA 7 REST API
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 the IP address of a provisioned item. You can then 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 can then use this as a building block for more Continue reading How to script a vRealize Automation 7 REST API request
In my last post I showed you how to create the developer friendly blueprint in vRealize 7. In this guide we will show how to invoke the REST API to make this request. Before we get into the details it helps to illustrate how each team wants to interact with Continue reading Requesting the VRA Developer Friendly Blueprint with curl
If you are reading this your most likely a vSphere shop and have a high amount of virtual servers in your data center. As you know, you can quickly right click and spin up a new VM. However, the challenge is getting all of the infrastructure and integrations in place Continue reading vRealize Automation or OpenStack or both?
vRealize Autmation exposes a RESTful API to automate common tasks without having to access the GUI. Some common examples of why you would use this are: Request machines as part of a Continus Integratation process Integrate vRA provisioning into your build systems such as Jenkins Drive vRA requests from a Continue reading vRealize Automation REST API with Curl