This post is going to detail how we can interact with the IaaS servers and work with the objects within the Entity Framework. I have also written a number of actions that provide a standard interface to use when working with the entities and perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on them.  Note: these actions are designed to be used

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When I work with endpoints in vRO, I like to use actions to discover these instead of hard coding them as attributes or within configuration elements. Hard coding of these endpoints requires manual configuration steps when moving code between environments, which is not ideal. I felt it would be a good idea to include this post early on within this

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I have updated this page on 22nd Jan 2019 to introduce enhancements over the original logging action. I have converted the original function calls to an object based approach. This allows a logger object to be used, which looks cleaner and is initialised once. I have also introduced JSDoc documentation styles into my code. One bugbear that I have with

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I have updated this page on 22nd Jan 2019 to introduce improvements over the original Action template and module structure. I have introduced the new logger object and JSDoc documentation styles into my code. Managing your code base in vRealize Orchestrator can be quite challenging and complex. Often, you won’t realise this until you’ve reached a point where it becomes

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