Aws

This year at AWS re:Invent Amazon announced a new service called Step Functions. According to AWS, Step Functions is an easy way to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. That pretty much sums it up! When you’ve got a series of small microservices that need to be coordinated, it can be tricky to write this code into each lambda function to call the next function. Step Functions gives you a visual editor to manage the calls to multiple Lambda functions to make your life easier. I’ve written about this before on the AHEAD blog. ...

I’ve always liked the idea of taking a series of Microsoft PowerShell scripts and putting them behind a user interface so that I can give the tool to other users. I’m not sure why this idea appeals to me, but probably because it makes me feel like a programmer, if only for a little while. I came across this post by Stephen Owen and I had to try it out. The project that I picked for this was based on the AWS PowerShell tools that I hadn’t used yet. Let’s face it, this is a good way to check out two different things, I didn’t have much experience with: The AWS PowerShell Tools and XAML for creating GUIs. ...

The use cases here are open for debate, but you can setup a serverless call to vRealize Orchestrator to execute your custom orchestration tasks. Maybe you’re integrating this with an Amazon IoT button, or you want voice deployments with Amazon Echo, or maybe you’re just trying to provide access to your workflows based on a CloudWatch event in Amazon. In any case, it is possible to setup an Amazon Lambda call to execute a vRO workflow. In this post, we’ll actually build a Lambda function that executes a vRO workflow that deploys a CentOS virtual machine in vRealize Automation, but the workflow could really be anything you want. ...