vRealize Automation 8 - Event Topics timeline

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 finished.
Deployment action requested	Yes	Issued before a deployment action is finished.

Mike @vbombarded has done some good footwork that helped us along.

Tho we felt the need to visualize the virtual machine deployment process in a timeline fashion.

After this work was done I was left wondering about where some vRA7 Event Topics went, and would we need them, so far I think we will need to investigate more about how to go about a few steps.

Steps we used in vRA7 that i haven't quite figured where to place contains along the lines of:

• CloneWorkflow.CloneMachine.EVENT.OnCloneMacineComplete
  In this step we did some steps with machines like 
• disk.enableUUID
• ignition.config.data for OpenShift
• picking up MAC address from network cards and reserve them in Microsoft DHCP
  
  
• CustomizeOS.EVENT.OnCustomizeOS
  Perhaps we are old school and still use vSphere Customizations