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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a powerful automation tool designed for system administrators and IT operations staff who are planning to streamline their tasks and are waiting to integrate the functions with third-party operations software. This book is an update to VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook and is blend of numerous recipes on vRealize Orchestrator 7. This book starts with installing and configuring vRealize Orchestrator. We will demonstrate how to upgrade from previous versions to vRealize Orchestrator 7. You will be taught all about orchestrator plugins and how to use and develop various plugins that have been enhanced in Orchestrator 7. Throughout this book, you will explore the new features of Orchestrator 7, such as the introduction of the control center, along with its uses. You will also come to understand visual programming, how to integrate base plugins into workflows, and how to automate VMware. You will also get to know how to troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator. By the end of this book, you will be able to get the most out of your Orchestrator installation, and will be able to develop complex workflows and create your own highly integrated automations of vRealize environments.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Introduction


Orchestrator has a REST-based API that allows you to interact with workflows as well as a lot more. We will be exploring this in this chapter in more detail.

Orchestrator used to have a SOAP API but it was discontinued; however, the VMware document vrealize-orchestrator-70-develop-web-services-guide.pdf still contains a chapter on it. So don't be mislead. Orchestrator SOAP is gone.

The REST API, in my opinion, is better and easier to use, especially as we have the fabulous Swagger UI to go and play with it (see the recipe Accessing Orchestrator REST API in this chapter).

Orchestrator can be accessed in a lot of ways, but they all come down to using the REST API.