VMware has created a HashiCorp Terraform provider which can be used to setup your vRA infrastructure, along with requesting deployments and consuming XaaS resources. This post will cover the basics of setting up vRA using Terraform.
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Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration
To get started with HashiCorp Terraform, this post will walk you through how to create your first Terraform configuration which will deploy a vSphere virtual machine from an existing vSphere template.
Read morevRA & Terraform: A New Way to Deploy
vRealize Automation and Terraform work together to create a new way of deploying. Read along to see how this works and some example code snippets.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – Change Internal Kubernetes IP Range
vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.2 added support for changing the IP address range used by the internal Kubernetes cluster, which is great news as many organisation already use the 10.244.0.0/21 address space.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – vRA Not Starting if K8s IP Range is Changed
There is a bug in vRealize Automation 8.x which causes the vRA appliance to not deploy / start-up properly, when the Kubernetes internal IP address space is changed to use the 192.168.0.0/16 range. This post resolves the issue, while VMware develop a patch to resolve the issue.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.2 – Terraform Configurations
vRealize Automation 8.2 added support for running your Terraform configurations directly from the vRA interface. Unfortunately, this requires a separate Kubernetes cluster. Or does it?
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – Setup Amazon Web Services Cloud Account
vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers and this article will cover the steps required to integrate with Amazon Web Services and the steps required in both the AWS Console and the vRA Portal.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – Setup Google Cloud Platform Cloud Account
vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers and this article will cover the steps required to integrate with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the steps required in both the GCP Portal and the vRA Portal.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – Setup Azure Cloud Account
vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers and this article will cover the steps required to integrate with Microsoft Azure and the steps required in both the Azure Portal and the vRA Portal.
Read morevRealize Automation 8.x – Setup vSphere Cloud Account
vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers and this article will cover the steps required to integrate with VMware vSphere, along with setting up the basics of your tagging strategy.
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