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Over the last week, I have been deep diving into SaltStack Config. So today, I had a use case come up around how to automate the installation of a Windows agent with SaltStack

As you may be aware VMware acquired SaltStack to bolster it’s Software Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation. Now with vRealize Automation 8.5 just being released, the integration of SaltStack Config into vRA is

The expectations on application and infrastructure delivery are continually increasing, in this blog, we will look at how VMware vRealize Automation Cloud and the Code Stream service can be used to deliver on

Back again to look at IPAM integration with VMware Cloud Assembly, part of Cloud Automation Services. I wanted to look at IPAM integration for externally managed static IP assignment, and/or DNS management, as

vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 is out, so I thought I would write a quick post about a few of the cool new features that I have discovered, whilst working with this version over the

I’ve been recently working with a customer on automating the execution of stored procedures within an Oracle database. This is nothing new through vRealize Orchestrator by using the OOB JDBC plugin, which makes

Continuing from our previous blog post on Extending Cloud Assembly with Action Based eXtensibility for ServiceNow Integration we are going to demonstrate in this blog post extensibility with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), typically used

Over the last week, we’ve both been diving deep into extensibility with VMware’s new Cloud Automation Services, specifically Cloud Assembly. This was particularly interesting to us as previously we spent the majority of

One of the key challenges of operating any cloud management platform such as vRealize Automation is managing the release process, and introducing new content and services without user impact or down time. vRealize

When creating vRealize Orchestrator workflows, usually the development process will require the consumption of environmental configuration, for an operation / task / process to be completed. This configuration can be defined in various

A common scenario I see is effort is often expended on integrating or automating as much as possible, whilst equivalent effort isn’t put into automating or scaling operations, this often leads to platform

Over the past month I’ve been exploring the Application Platform and Cloud Native space, deploying NSX-T, Pivotal Container Service (PKS) and Istio in the lab as I prepared to co-present with Annie Lin

Hi there! I’ve been playing with Wavefront on and off not long after the acquisition (May, 2017), trying to wrap my head around the space Wavefront operates in. Previously Wavefront’s audience wasn’t typlically

Welcome to cloudbrokers.blog by Aaron Evans, Simon Lynch and Tony Phan. We created this site to blog about our experience and expertise in all areas of Cloud Management. Our primary focus is around automation, orchestration