Getting Started with vRealize Orchestrator and Rubrik's REST API

What’s this REST thing everyone keeps talking about? “Oh, don’t worry, we have a REST API.” or “It’s just a simple REST call.” At one point I was hearing these phrases and would get very frustrated. If REST is so commonplace or so simple to use, then why did I not know how to do it? If this sounds like you, then keep reading. I work for a company called “Ahead” as a consultant and they recently got a Rubrik Hybrid Cloud Appliance in their lab but my colleague Nick Colyer and I noticed that they didn’t have any vRealize Orchestrator Plugins for it. We decided to build these on our own, with the help of Chris Wahl and publish them for the community to use. ...

August 25, 2015 · 4 min · eshanks

Getting Started with vRealize Orchestrator and Rubrik's REST API

What’s this REST thing everyone keeps talking about? “Oh, don’t worry, we have a REST API.” or “It’s just a simple REST call.” At one point I was hearing these phrases and would get very frustrated. If REST is so commonplace or so simple to use, then why did I not know how to do it? If this sounds like you, then keep reading. I work for a company called “Ahead” as a consultant and they recently got a Rubrik Hybrid Cloud Appliance in their lab but my colleague Nick Colyer and I noticed that they didn’t have any vRealize Orchestrator Plugins for it. We decided to build these on our own, with the help of Chris Wahl and publish them for the community to use. ...

August 25, 2015 · 4 min · eshanks