VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Vault Integration
The goal of this post is to walk through configuring vRO to leverage HashiCorp Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io/) for reading secrets that will be

Packer vSphere ISO Builder Release v1.6
There have been a lot of changes from v1.5 to v1.6 with the biggest one being support for provisioners as well as upgrades

vSphere Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means that the component can be
Building vSphere Templates From Scratch Using Packer and the vSphere API
Packer (https://www.packer.io/) is amazing tool that enables templates and machine images to be created in an automated fashion with support for various

Building A Dynamic vSphere/AWS Hybrid Cloud Lab - Part 2
This post covers the second part of the blog series on creating a dynamic hybrid cloud lab environment with a local (on-prem) vSphere environment and

Building A Dynamic vSphere/AWS Hybrid Cloud Lab - Part 1
In this blog series we'll walk through creating a dynamic lab hybrid cloud environment with a local (on-prem) vSphere environment and an AWS environment. As

vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and PostgreSQL Database SSL
In a previous post we walked through configuring a PostgreSQL database server as the external database for our vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) cluster. In this post

vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Cluster with a PostgreSQL Database
In this post we're going to build out a two node vRealize Orchestrator cluster with a PostgreSQL database. VMware is deprecating support for Microsoft SQL

Sending Microsoft Teams messages with vRealize Orchestrator
In this post we're going to walk through sending a message/notification to Microsoft Teams from within vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). Create Microsoft Teams Connector The

Triggering a vRO workflow with Jenkins
This post is going to cover triggering a vRealize Orchestrator workflow with Jenkins. Integrating Jenkins and vRO can be very useful given the number of

vRA 7.2 dynamic property list from REST API
In this post we're going to walk through how to dynamically populate a vRA request field using values retrieved from a REST API using vRO.

vRealize Automation 7.2 hardening compliance with vRO and Splunk
In this post we'll walk through how we can utilize vRealize Orchestrator and Splunk to determine how compliant our vRA appliance is with the vRealize
