- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
- 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
- Introduction
- Tuning the appliance
- Tuning Java
- Configuring the Kerberos authentication
- Configuring access to the local filesystem
- Configuring the Orchestrator service SSL certificate
- Orchestrator log files
- Redirecting Orchestrator logs to an external server
- Backup and recovery
- Control Center titbits
- 3. Distributed Design
- Introduction
- Building an Orchestrator cluster
- Load-balancing Orchestrator
- Upgrading a cluster
- Managing remote Orchestrators
- Synchronizing Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers
- 4. Programming Skills
- Introduction
- Version control
- Changing elements in a workflow
- Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements
- Working with packages
- Workflow auto documentation
- Resuming failed workflows
- Using the workflow debugging function
- Undelete workflows and actions
- Scheduling workflows
- Sync presentation settings
- Locking elements
- 5. Visual Programming
- 6. Advanced Programming
- Introduction
- JavaScript complex variables
- Working with JSON
- JavaScript special statements
- Turning strings into objects
- Working with the API
- Creating actions
- Waiting tasks
- Sending and waiting for custom events
- Using asynchronous workflows
- Scripting with workflow tokens
- Working with user interactions
- 7. Interacting with Orchestrator
- Introduction
- User management
- User preferences
- Using Orchestrator though the vSphere Web Client
- Accessing Orchestrator REST API
- Accessing the Control Center via the REST plugin
- Running Orchestrator workflows using PowerShell
- Using PHP to access the REST API
- 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working
- 9. Essential Plugins
- 10. Built-in Plugins
- Introduction
- Working with XML
- Working with SQL (JDBC)
- Working with SQL (SQL plugin)
- Working with PowerShell
- Working with SOAP
- Working with Active Directory
- Working with SNMP
- Working with AMQP
- 11. Additional Plugins
- 12. Working with vSphere
- 13. Working with vRealize Automation
- Introduction
- Working with the vRA-integrated Orchestrator
- Automating a vRA instance in Orchestrator
- Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA
- Adding Orchestrator as an infrastructure endpoint
- Adding an Orchestrator endpoint
- Integrating Orchestrator workflows as XaaS Blueprints
- Managing AD users with vRA
- Using the Event Manager to start workflows
In this recipe, we will look at how to use the Orchestrator version control and use it to control your software development. Version control is part of almost all elements.
A working Orchestrator is required, and you will need the rights to create new workflows and run them. We will work with the Orchestrator Client.
We need an existing workflow that we can play around with. In this recipe, we will use the 00.00 BasicWorkflow workflow of the example package. The finished example is the 04.02 VersionControl example workflow.
We will use a workflow for this example; however, it works for other elements too:
- Make a duplicate of the
00.00 BasicWorkflowworkflow. - Click on General and have a look at the current version (see the following screenshot).
- Open the workflow for editing by right-clicking on it and selecting Edit.
- Drag a system log element from the log section into the schema.
- Bind the text in-parameter to an existing string variable.
- Click on General and then on the second version counter to increase the version of the workflow to
0.1.0(see the following screenshot). - You can now enter a comment to the new version. This is a good place to record changes that have been made. When finished click on OK.
- The version counter in the General section should now be increased.
- Click on Show version history to see an overview of all existing versions:
- Now click on Save and Close. If you now select Increase version, you will create version
0.1.1, so you should select Continue anyway.
You use this function to compare the differences between versions of a workflow:
- On the workflow's General tab, click on Show version history.
- Select the version you would like to compare the present one against and click on Diff Against Current.
- A window will pop up and show both versions next to each other. Resize the window as required.
- When you are finished, click on Close:
Version control is a very important tool in software development. It not only helps you keep track of your code development, but also helps you in other ways. For instance, when you import a workflow or a package, you can directly see whether the import is newer or older than the existing one. The other thing is that you can check versions against each other, as well as revert to different versions. You can use the revert function to make duplicates of older versions.
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