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 request. The manager could take up-to few days to approve the request. Solution: We decided 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 in this workflow, if you have the requirement for one. Lately me and my colleague 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 to that project. Requirement: Create a project for each team. Add custom properties to the 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 are not yet managed by a vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly project. This can be found 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 leverage the Cloud Template from my previous blog on adding multiple disks. It has been modified 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 for deploying modern applications via delivery pipelines. While vRA provides native integration with PKS and 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 to add disks in the Cloud Template but the catch is that when the VM 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 no way to conceal it. It is a required field so either it has to Read more…