Just another automation manager

It surely has been some interesting 5 years. Some of what i learned these years: Logging is truly a form of art Never assume a 3rd party application is working The world changes rather rapidly Also i will leave all other vRA7 entusiasts with a little note.. Renew your certificates, oh did you already? Hope you didnt forget PostgreSQL (expires 5 years after installation) vRA 7.x APIs return error 500 when connecting to Postgres DB (85904) (vmware.com) OH but there is more.. Management Agents will also stop work unless you replace self signed certificates Replace a Management Agent Certificate (vmware.com)

K8s with Antrea management or the ability to fetch vSphere tags is awaited functionality. Read more on blogs.vmware.com

With vRA 8.5 follows an updated vRO plugin that gives more or less the same insight as in the previously vRO7 plugin. This feels weirdly nice for someone who enjoys spending time in vRO vRealize Automation 8.5 Release Notes

Event Broker enhancements Ability to add subscriptions at post provisioning stage and before power on. vRealize-Automation-84-releasenotes

To a lot of vRealize Automation 6-7 Managers moving to vRealize Automation 8 is a rather large adaptation of new skillsets. What we have currently been looking at is adapt the new Event Topic model. And there is a lot of Event Topics to follow, but I still feel something is missing. Full list of Event Topics documented @VMware Docs Compute allocation Yes Issued before the allocation of  resourcenames  and  hostselections . Both of these properties can be modified at this stage. Compute post provision Yes Issued after a resource was provisioned successfully. Compute post removal Yes issued after a compute resource was removed. Compute provision Yes Issued before the resource is provisioned at the hypervisor layer. Note: You can change the allocated IP address. Compute removal Yes Issued before the resource is removed. Compute reservation Yes Issued at the time of reservation. Note: You can change the placement order. Deployment action completed Yes Issued after a deployment action is fi

Automate your every task! Free your own time, use this time for what gives value for you.  * Take on more tasks * Free your time * Accomplish more Use triggers, events or shedules to perform these tasks. Be smart about your work time.