Vrealize-Automation on The IT Hollow

Getting Started with vRealize Code Stream

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:05:22 +0000

vRealize Code Stream is a tool that is used to operationalize infrastructure code blueprints for release management. Code Stream plugs into vRealize Automation and includes a testing framework though Jenkins and vRealize Orchestrator as well as using JFrog Artifactory and Xenon for storing artifacts. This post is used to organize several blog posts on helping you to get started with vRealize Code Stream and Houdini.

Setting up Code Stream and Jenkins

Setting up Code Stream and Artifactory

Installing vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps

Configuring Endpoints for vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps

Using vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps

Unit Testing with vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps

Official Documentation:

vRealize Code Stream Information Center VMware vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps Installation Guide

Add Custom Items to vRealize Automation

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:14:41 +0000

vRealize Automation lets us publish vRealize Orchestrator workflows to the service catalog, but to get more functionality out of these XaaS blueprints, we can add the provisioned resources to the items list. This allows us to manage the lifecycle of these items and even perform secondary “Day 2 Operations” on these items later.

For the example in this post, we’ll be provisioning an AWS Security group in an existing VPC. For now, just remember that AWS Security groups are not managed by vRA, but with some custom work, this is all about to change.

Software Defined Networking with vRealize Automation and NSX

Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:30:53 +0000

This is a series of posts helping you get familiarized with how VMware’s vRealize Automation 6 can leverage VMware’s NSX product to provide software defined networking. The series will show you how to do some basic setup of NSX as well as how to use Private, Routed and NAT networks all from within vRA.