Category: VMware Cloud Foundation

VCF Operations Orchestrator has a built-in locking semaphore provided by the LockingSystem class. When a lock is created, the workflow is placed into a waiting state, and any additional executions of the workflow will be placed in a queue until the lock is released. Locking is a useful technique that can help protect the consistency of data or prevent multiple

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VCF Operations Orchestrator allows you to define endpoints for API integration in the inventory as RestHosts using the HTTP-REST plugin. Once a RestHost is defined, it is then possible to authenticate and perform HTTP web requests on the endpoint (GET, POST, etc). HttpRestClient is designed to enhance this experience by doing all the heavy lifting when performing these requests, such

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VCF Automation Orchestrator has a limitation with console logging because there is no way to dynamically output the name of an action or sub-workflow. The statement this.workflow.name can be used to get the name of a top-level workflow, but the same value would be used for all sub-workflows and Actions. Several years ago, I wrote a post on my Simplygeek

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VCF Automation integration with a Git solution like GitHub or Gitlab is a conversation that has come up a lot over the years, and again recently. The suggestion is often to use the native integration options provided with the product, which are fine for their intended use case, but many misconceptions lead to disappointment. It’s important to understand what content

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This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Build Tools for VMware Aria

This series has focused on getting up and running with the Build Tools and creating basic projects. In this post, I will demonstrate all the available Maven commands and some additional parameters that can be used. This page can also be used as a useful Maven command reference. Creating Projects The following sections provide all the commands for creating the

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This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Build Tools for VMware Aria

The Build Tools for VMware Aria project has developed an Extension for Visual Studio Code that provides native integration directly in the IDE. Using VSCode with this extension will provide the following features when developing code for your VCF Automation environment: I have had quite a few issues with the plugin and found that it provides limited support. The biggest

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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Build Tools for VMware Aria

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

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This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Build Tools for VMware Aria

It has been a while since I covered anything related to the build tools that support development in VCF Automation. A lot has changed since I covered it in my ‘IaC for vRealize‘ series. Many people have been asking, and I finally had some time to write an updated post, covering the latest versions of the build tools (currently version

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