Aria Automation integration with a Git solution like Github or Gitlab is a conversation that has come up a lot over the years and again very recently. What is often suggested is to use the native integration options that are provided within the product, which are fine for their intended use case but many misconceptions lead to disappointment. Therefore, it’s
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
It has been a while since I have covered anything related to the build tools that support development in Aria Automation Orchestrator and a lot has changed since I covered it in my ‘IaC for vRealize‘ series of posts. Many people have been asking and I finally had some time to write an updated post, covering the latest versions of
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
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
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
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