Deploying vRealize Automation 8 with Easy Installer – Part 1

Deploying vRealize Automation 8 with Easy Installer – Part 1 The process of deploying vRealize Automation has been totally revised with vRealize Automation 8. The biggest changes are: There are no Windows IaaS components anymore Installation is done via the VMware Lifecycle Manager Basic architecture Internaly, vRealize Automation consists of the following components: vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: This component...

vRA author interview with vExpert Guido Soeldner on VMware Blogs

vRA author interview with vExpert Guido Soeldner on VMware Blogs We are proud to announce Dr. Guido Soeldner was asked from VMware to give an interview about his latest book „Mastering vRealize Automation 7.1“. Click here to read the full interview at VMware Blogs Guido and his brothers Dr. Constantin Soeldner and Jens-Henrik Soeldner just released „Mastering vRealize Automation...

Manage AWS CloudFormation stacks in vRealize Automation with the help of Dynamic Types (Part 4)

Manage AWS CloudFormation stacks in vRealize Automation with the help of Dynamic Types (Part 4) Step 4, Workflows After having created the Dynamic Types in the last blog post, it is time for some coding this time. Remember, we have four different workflows: The find-by-id, the find-all, the find-relation and the has-relation one: In the find-by-id workflow, we search for a AWS stack by...

Out now! Our new book: „Mastering vRealize Automation 7.1“ is now available in the Kindle Store…

Out now! Our new book: „Mastering vRealize Automation 7.1“ is now available in the Kindle Store… Direct Link to Kindle Store Master your cloud environment with the ultimate vRealize Automation guide Mastering vRealize Automation 7 is the fully updated edition of the comprehensive guide to VMware’s cloud management platform solution. With extensive coverage of the vRealize Automation platform, this book acts as an informative guide...

vRealize Automation 7 – Chapter 23: Automating vRealize Automation

vRealize Automation 7 – Chapter 23: Automating vRealize Automation Chapter 23: Automating vRealize Automation Chapter 23: Automating vRealize Automation In this chapter you will learn: Infrastructure as Code Using the Cloud Client for Infrastructure as Code Scripting vRealize Automation Using the vRA REST API Using PowerShell for automating vRealize Automation Chapter 22: XaaS Services Chapter 21: Working with...

Manage AWS cloudformation stacks in vRealize Automation with the help of Dynamic Types (Part 3)

Manage AWS cloudformation stacks in vRealize Automation with the help of Dynamic Types (Part 3) Step 3, Dynamic Types This time we want to create the Dynamic Types as an abstraction layer for the real CloudFormation stacks. In the last blog entry, we defined the way how to communicate with AWS and in this article we will build the appropriate workflows in Orchestrator. First,...