Automation Operations Installing Windows Agents with SaltStack Config 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
Automation vRealize Automation SaltStack Config - Part 1 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
Automation Operations Continuous Deployment with VMware Code Stream 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
Automation IPAM Integration with VMware Cloud Assembly 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
Automation vRealize Orchestrator 7.6! 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
Automation Executing Stored Procedures with Output Parameters through vRO 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
Automation Extending Cloud Assembly with vRealize Orchestrator for ServiceNow Integration 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
Automation Extending Cloud Assembly with Action Based eXtensibility for ServiceNow Integration 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
Automation Operations Operationalizing vRealize Automation - Release 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
Automation Decoupling Configuration From Code 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
Automation Operations Operationalizing vRealize Automation - Logging 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
Automation vRealize Automation 7.5 and Pivotal Container Service Integration 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
Automation Operations Welcome to CloudBrokers 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