- 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
Several things have happened since the first edition of this book. The most important thing is that vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 (vRO) was released and changed a lot with the Control Center; I can see that the next thing would be Orchestrator being used more, last but not least, I released the vRealize Orchestrator Essentials book. It allowed me to remove a lot of beginner stuff from this book and have a greater focus on the more interesting stuff.
The release of vRealize Automation 7.1 (vRA) bought about a lot of changes too, as Orchestrator is now even more integrated into vRA than before.
Tip
If you're completely new to Orchestrator I would suggest that you start your journey with the vRealize Orchestrator Essentials book.
To do so go to http://bit.ly/1KVVara.
The following are the changes from the First edition:
- We have restructured all chapters and recipes
- We have focused on the new Control Center
- We now have complete chapter on Clusters, distributed design, and loadbalancing
- We have reworked on all recipes to fit vRO7.1 and vRA7.1
- We focus on REST and JSON
- We have included an chapter on how to use PowerShell, REST, PHP and other methods to interact with Orchestrator workflows
- We have included the NSX, Horizon, Replication, SRM, and VROPS plugins
- We will introduce you to the new vAPI
- We have a complete chapter on vRA7.1 integration including Event Broker
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