VCF Automation 9 has multiple levels of API access. There is the provider level where e.g. orgs can be created, the org level where projects, policies etc. are managed and the resource level. For all API calls there’s a good documentation page in the product which sometimes however does not fully explain how to get… Read More »
Within our new All Apps organization, we leverage Supervisor Services that are accessible through Kubernetes as well as VMware Cloud Foundation Automation.This post walks through deploying VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) as a Supervisor Service and using it to create databases automatically through the Automation portal. Deploy DSM Appliance In vCenter open the Administration Menü… Read More »
Thanks to Meera Menon for her help on this topic! One value proposition of the VCF Platform is that it manages both, VM-based as well as Kubernetes-based workloads. VCF includes the vSphere Supervisor Services, which provide the capability of deploying fully supported Kubernetes Clusters. VCF Automation makes sure that consumers can provision VMs, other resources… Read More »
When talking about automation, Terraform is a tool which is often used at customer installations. Many customers leverage it to manage public cloud resources as it originally has been built for that. As VCF is a private cloud solution it sounds logical to add those resources as well for a Terraform configuration. While there might… Read More »
There are two types of organizations in VCF Automation 9. The All Apps Org and the VM Apps Org. The All Apps Org automatically configures the associated Account in Operations 9, but the Account for the VM Apps Org must be set up manually. Since we need a service account for this, I have written… Read More »
So, you’ve installed VCF Automation 9, and you’re all excited to peek inside your shiny new virtual machines via Web Console or VMRC Client. Only… nothing happens. No console, no love, no joy. Just a blank stare and a silent scream. Don’t worry — it’s not you, it’s your certificates. Turns out, VCF Automation 9… Read More »
With the improvements of VCF Automation 9 it now includes a new model which supports developer consumer use cases. In context of the tenancy architecture, it provides 2 different types of organizations: VM-Apps-OrgAn organization which is almost identical to what is known from 8.x versions of Aria Automation. Its main purpose is to support VM-based… Read More »
A while ago I created a blog about creating a customer resource using Aria Orchestrator dynamic types. The example taken was a simple link management solution which leverages the Orchestrator configuration items. In this blog I will use the same example but in a different way. VCF Automation 9 has introduced a “new schema” type… Read More »
VCF Automation 9 introduced 2 types of organizations: VM-Apps-Organization and All-Apps-Organization. The VM-Apps-Organization is almost identical to the 8.x version of Aria Automation and can use the embedded or an external Orchestrator. The All-Apps-Organization is a completely new architecture which relies on Kubernetes APIs. It can use Orchestrator for extensibility, custom resources and other functions… Read More »