Attached to this post you will find a JSON file that can be imported into Postman. The import will give you a collection called ‘AutomationPro-vRA8’ which contains 19 example requests for using against a VMware vRA 8 install. Although there are many more requests that can be made,...
Since the announcement of VMware vRealize 8, migration has been a popular topic. I don’t mean deployment of vRA8 itself; that is handled [editor: very nicely I might add] by the new version of VMware Lifecycle Manager. Follow the wizard and sooner rather than later you will have...
VMware vRealize Automation 8 is a leap forwards and certainly a far cry from what we all knew as vRealize Automation 7.x. A new code base with a new look, if you have any familiarity with VMware vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly Cloud Automation Services) software as a service...
Like most I need ‘something’ of a home lab for learning, testing and developing solutions on. My requirements are pretty straightforward. I mainly need a simple vSphere setup with vRA, vRO and a Windows Domain Controller providing Active Directory, DNS and DHCP. I had been running various VMs...
Business Process / Featured / General / Thoughts
by paul_davey · Published February 10, 2020 · Last modified January 5, 2021
Recently I have been working with a financial industry customer who is all in on Automation, however it became apparent quite early on that they haven’t standardised their processes. Now, in day to day running’s and operations of a business – particularly IT – this might not be...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 30, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary This tutorial will show you how to apply one or more licenses to vCenter through the use of Terraform. This can be expanded on to create a module that can be used across multiple vSphere environments. Structure First of all, we are going to create a...
Having installed Puppet Enterprise in my home lab I decided I should hook it up to my vRA 8.3 installation using the native integration feature. Doing a quick Google search yielded a clear and simple blog post that outlined how to configure it for vRA 8.1. Following this...
Recently I have been having some fun and games with vRA 8.2, in particular, with the extensibility capabilities. With the introduction of PowerShell support for vRA actions, I thought I would have a little play and see what I could break. I’m On A MetaData Hunt.. Ok, so...
After deploying the NSX-T manager in my lab (I have a project coming up which will require me to automate some of the NSX-T configuration) I found that appliance had not installed properly. The services were not started correctly, no web UI and errors in the console about...
Whilst working on creating a new Packer deployment set with version 1.6.2, I had some strange issues whereby the Windows Server 2019 ISO on my vSphere datastore would randomly not connect. I admit I did scratch my head a bit on this one. Through some ‘Google-Fu’ I found...
Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform / VMware vRA
by paul_davey · Published August 12, 2020
Of late I have been playing with Terraform and the vRA 8 provider. Although I have found quite a few bugs with the provider (I’ll log those soon) it certainly is a great start! I have captured a quick demo below where I configure settings on a brand...
Puppet provide a really great learning experience free of charge for everyone in the form of the Puppet Learning VM. The VM includes Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Server, Bolt and a bunch of virtual clients (thanks to incorporating Docker) for you to use to become more familiar with the...
Attached to this post you will find a JSON file that can be imported into Postman. The import will give you a collection called ‘AutomationPro-vRA8’ which contains 19 example requests for using against a VMware vRA 8 install. Although there are many more requests that can be made,...
Since the announcement of VMware vRealize 8, migration has been a popular topic. I don’t mean deployment of vRA8 itself; that is handled [editor: very nicely I might add] by the new version of VMware Lifecycle Manager. Follow the wizard and sooner rather than later you will have...
VMware vRealize Automation 8 is a leap forwards and certainly a far cry from what we all knew as vRealize Automation 7.x. A new code base with a new look, if you have any familiarity with VMware vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly Cloud Automation Services) software as a service...
Like most I need ‘something’ of a home lab for learning, testing and developing solutions on. My requirements are pretty straightforward. I mainly need a simple vSphere setup with vRA, vRO and a Windows Domain Controller providing Active Directory, DNS and DHCP. I had been running various VMs...
Business Process / Featured / General / Thoughts
by paul_davey · Published February 10, 2020 · Last modified January 5, 2021
Recently I have been working with a financial industry customer who is all in on Automation, however it became apparent quite early on that they haven’t standardised their processes. Now, in day to day running’s and operations of a business – particularly IT – this might not be...
Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published November 1, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
I thought I would share two videos [editor: very basic, excuse the quality!] showing the use of Terraform to manipulate vSphere infrastructure. I recommend watching both videos ‘full screen’ for best effect [editor: and with popcorn if you have any, preferably sweet] Video1 – vSphere Infrastructure...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 30, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary This tutorial will show you how to apply one or more licenses to vCenter through the use of Terraform. This can be expanded on to create a module that can be used across multiple vSphere environments. Structure First of all, we are going to create a...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 29, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary In this blog post we will look at configuring Terraform Cloud to remotely host our Terraform state file. Terraform cloud has multiple levels of subscriptions available. The good news is, we only need the free one! This post assumes that you have some Terraform config already setup....
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 29, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary This is part three of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 28, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary This is part two of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 28, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
Summary This is part one of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. We will start by getting setup with Terraform, creating a basic definition to...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 28, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
[editor comment: if you don’t know what Infrastructure As Code (IaC) is I recommend reading this post first] What Is Terraform Terraform is an open source tool that helps you provision, manage the state of and update, infrastructure. Terraform works by using Infrastructure as Code...
Featured / Hashicorp / infrastructure as code / ioc / Terraform
by paul_davey · Published October 17, 2019 · Last modified September 3, 2020
IT Infrastructure.. love it or hate it, it forms the foundation of many companies operations. These days you are hard pushed to get a job anyway doing anything, that doesn’t require you to use a computer, mobile phone, email, websites, a word processor…. the list goes on....
I got caught out last week by something that I had not come across before. A customer has an environment comprised of vSphere, vRA, vRO.. the usual suspects. vRA and vRO and associated IAAS roles were all duplicated and sat behind a load balancer. Anyway, whilst re-writing some...
