The Build Tools for VMware Aria provides many project types and this post is going to focus on those that can be used to manage Aria Automation and Aria Automation Orchestrator content.  I will describe what each project is used for and some guidelines on which to use for a given use case. I will also provide some example commands

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Welcome to the 5th post in the series. This is going to be a relatively small post where we will take a look at archetypes and how to update these and also discuss a standard layout for creating vRO Actions. At this stage, the focus is on ensuring that we have everything required when creating new projects, instead of having

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Welcome to the 4th post in the series where I will take a look at how we can add comments to our code using JSDoc and perform syntax checking and style management with ESLint. I felt this was a good point to intersect the series on these topics, where you will establish fundamental development practices and make your vRO development

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If you have read any of my posts, you will quickly discover that I use Ansible a lot, for deploying virtual machines and VMware OVA appliances, on vSphere. Ansible support for VMware is constantly growing and in the latest versions, it has become an essential tool that I use as part of my development process for standing up required infrastructure

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Welcome to the third part in the series working with the vRealize Build Tools. At this stage, you should have a fully working CI infrastructure and have all of your vRO code exported using packages and stored in Git repositories. In this post, I will show you how to manage dependencies across your packages and how you can use the

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This post has been deprecated and updated content can be found here In my previous post on Deploying vRealize Build Tools To Allow Infrastructure As Code for vRA and vRO, I covered how to set up the CI infrastructure and your developer workstation, in preparation for managing your vRO code as projects with Visual Studio Code and Maven. In this

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For many years I have been tasked with building vRealize Automation environments, and one of the biggest pain points has been the deployment and preparation of the IaaS machines. This has usually required special preparation of a Windows template and several scripts to get everything configured so that vRA plays nice. This is usually an error-prone process, especially for the

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This post has been deprecated and updated content can be found here As any vRealize Orchestrator developer will tell you, managing code outside of the appliance is difficult. I recently wrote a post about Using Visual Studio Code for your vRealize Orchestrator Development, where I highlighted some of the challenges with this. The issue is that we’re not given the

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