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 »
Thanks to Matteo Brioschi for his support for this blog! VCF Automation manages a full deployment cycle from the request of the process until disposal of the resource. In this context the object in question will be tracked as a deployment as long as it exists. Customers can use that deployment to invoke day-2 actions… Read More »