I often start many of my blog posts describing how to set up a Python virtual environment and install the required modules, when working with Ansible. I have therefore decided to create this post to cover the topic in a bit more detail and for better consistency. When I am developing Ansible playbooks and depending on the project, I often
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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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IaC for vRealize: Define Dependencies, Manage Versions, Prepare & Release Packages & Deploy Artifacts
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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IaC for vRealize: Manage Existing vRO Code With vRealize Build Tools & Set up Git Repositories
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 post, I will explain how you can work with your existing code
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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IaC for vRealize: Deploying vRealize Build Tools To Allow Infrastructure As Code for vRA and vRO
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 freedom to use any IDE we want, easily run unit tests on
In this post, I am going to cover the running of the Ansible NSX-T playbook so that you can get NSX-T deployed in your environment(s). In case you missed them, in my previous posts, I detailed how to set up your Ansible environment and configure the playbook in preparation for deploying NSX-T. If you arrived here and want to figure
In my previous post, I covered how to prepare your Ansible environment and install the VMware NSX-T modules. I also provided the details on how to install my Ansible playbooks for deploying NSX-T in your environments. In this post, I am going to detail how to configure these playbooks to meet your environment/requirements. I have chosen to break out my