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  • vRealize Automation 8.x - Hide Quickstart UI

    calendarJan 13, 2022 · 2 min read · Automation Configure Homelab VMware vRA vRA 8 vRealize  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.x - Hide Quickstart UI

    By default, a vRealize Automation 8.x session log you into the Services page, when you and your users are greeted with the Quickstart banner. The easiest way to remove this is to configure a vSphere Cloud Account, however for some environments, vSphere isn't an endpoint used. In this case, to remove the banner, a …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.5+ - Increase Session Timeout

    calendarAug 19, 2021 · 3 min read · Automation Configure Homelab VMware vRA vRA 8 vRealize  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.5+ - Increase Session Timeout

    By default, a vRealize Automation 8.x session will timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity. For those looking to increase the session timeout value, this hasn't been possible before vRealize Automation 8.5. This all changes with the release of vRealize Automation 8.5, as documented in the release notes here. To increase …


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  • Setup vRealize Automation using Terraform

    calendarMay 3, 2021 · 5 min read · Hashicorp Homelab IaC Terraform VMware vRA vRealize  ·
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    Setup vRealize Automation using Terraform

    VMware has created a HashiCorp Terraform provider which can be used to set up your vRealize Automation (vRA) infrastructure, along with requesting deployments and consuming XaaS resources. This post will cover the basics of setting up vRA using Terraform. The first two posts in this series cover the basics of …


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  • Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration

    calendarFeb 1, 2021 · 4 min read · IaC HashiCorp Homelab Samples Terraform VMware vSphere  ·
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    Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration

    To get started with HashiCorp Terraform, you can download the simple executable file from HashiCorp here. To understand the basics of Infrastructure as Code and Terraform, have a read of the post available here. Terraform configuration files are text files with a .tf file extension. To get started, create a new folder …


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  • vRA & Terraform: A New Way to Deploy

    calendarJan 29, 2021 · 3 min read · IaC HashiCorp Homelab Samples Terraform VMware vRA  ·
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    vRA & Terraform: A New Way to Deploy

    On January 28th 2021, I presented at the Automation User Group about vRealize Automation and Terraform and how they work together to provide a new way to deploy your infrastructure. The recording of the session will be available here and the slides are available from here. vRealize Automation Cloud What is …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.x – Change Internal Kubernetes IP Range

    calendarDec 3, 2020 · 2 min read · Homelab Integration Kubernetes VMware vRA vRealize  ·
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    vRealize 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. Unfortunately if your network already uses the ranges 10.244.0.0/22 or 10.244.4.0/22, you will likely encounter …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.x - vRA Not Starting if K8s IP Range is Changed

    calendarNov 25, 2020 · 2 min read · Homelab Kubernetes Prelude VMware vRA vRealize  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.x - vRA Not Starting if K8s IP Range is Changed

    vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.0 introduced a completely new architecture by running the vRA application itself on top of a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. Unfortunately this was released with a hardcoded IP address range used by the internal k8s cluster. If your corporate network happened to be using the same IP addresses that …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.2 - Terraform Configurations

    calendarNov 23, 2020 · 3 min read · Homelab Setup Terraform VMware vRA vRealize  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.2 - Terraform Configurations

    vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.2 added support for running your Terraform (TF) configurations directly from the vRA interface. Simply register your code repository endpoint, either GitLab or GitHub, and select which Terraform configuration to run. The vRA logic will even map the deployed resources to your vRA Cloud …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.x - Setup Amazon Web Services Cloud Account

    calendarApr 4, 2020 · 3 min read · Automation AWS Getting Started Homelab VMware vRA vRealize  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.x - Setup Amazon Web Services Cloud Account

    vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers, and to do this for your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, select Cloud Assembly > Infrastructure > Connections > Cloud Accounts and create each of the cloud integrations you require. For AWS, we simply need to head over to the AWS Console …


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  • vRealize Orchestrator - Kerberos Configuration File

    calendarMar 16, 2020 · 1 min read · Homelab Kerberos krb5.conf VMware vRealize vRO vRO 7 vRO 8  ·
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    vRealize Orchestrator - Kerberos Configuration File

    To configure Kerberos authentication with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), the krb5.conf file must be set up for your specific environment and the domain you are connecting to. The location of the krb5.conf file is different for different versions and deployments of vRO, so the below list shows the locations of the …


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Gary Flynn

GaryFlynn.com started out in 2016 as a way for me to share my experiences working in IT across the UK and Australia with others. Consider this my brain dumping ground for anything I think could be useful. Find out more about the site here.

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  • Takeaways from VMware Explore EU 2022
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  • vRealize Automation 8.x - Hide Quickstart UI
  • VMworld 2021 vRealize Announcements
  • vRealize Automation 8.5+ - Increase Session Timeout
  • Setup vRealize Automation using Terraform
  • Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration
  • vRA & Terraform: A New Way to Deploy

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