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 Config to define and enforce optimal, compliant software states across your entire environment. This article showcases 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 request. The manager could take up-to few days to approve the request. Solution: We decided 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 of material. Ubuntu core 20.04.3 LTS Kubernetes 1.20 NSX-T 3.1 NSX container plugin 3.1 vSphere 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…