SaltStack Config (SSC) comes bundled with vRealize Automation since version 8.3. You can use it to provision, configure, and deploy software to your virtual machines at any scale using event-driven automation. You can also use SaltStack Read more…
Challenge: The customer is using Service Now and wanted to integrate approvals in vRealize Automation. So, when a deployment in kicked off from Service Broker, it has to proceed only when the manager approved the Read more…
This post shows how I set up kubernetes 1.20 cluster with NSX-T Container Plugin. All the namespaces will be using the same T1 Gateway and the stateful services will be applied to this gateway. Bill Read more…
You can add a rest host by using the “Add a REST host” workflow in vRealize Orchestrator. This workflow can be found under the folder Library > HTTP-REST > Configuration. You can specify the proxy Read more…
In my previous blog, I onboarded the existing vCenter workloads to vRealize Automation in an existing project. The customer has asked me to create a workflow to create a project and then onboard the workloads Read more…
vRealize Automation 8.x has a neat feature where you use a workload onboarding plan to identify machines that have been data-collected from a cloud account type in a target region or data center but that Read more…
I was checking out the Azure catalog and came across their SQL server offering. I decided to create my own on-prem version of SQL Server as a Service using VMware vRealize Automation. I decided to Read more…
There is a massive shift towards containerised applications. vRealize Automation supports provisioning Kubernetes Namespaces and deploying K8 clusters from Self-Service catalog in Service Broker. Kubernetes can also be used as an endpoint in Code Stream Read more…
Recently, I had to create a Cloud Template in Cloud Assembly which will enable the user to add disks to windows VM with a custom label, drive letter and size. It is fairly straight forward Read more…
I had a requirement where the customer did not want the Ansible password to be visible to the end user. Out of the box, Cloud Assembly inserts the password as plain text and there is Read more…
Azure is rapidly gaining market share in the cloud space. Clients are migrating on-prem infrastructure to Azure more than ever. Despite public cloud gaining popularity, there will always be a need to have on-prem infrastructure Read more…