Chris McClanahan

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Active Directory Integration in Cloud Assembly

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In vRealize Automation, which is our on premise automation platform, you could specify where you wanted a virtual machine object placed in your Active Directory structure using integration Active Directory. This capability is now “out-of-the-box” functionality within Cloud Assembly. Let’s walk through how we set up this new integration.   How to Setup the New Read more...

Action Based Extensibility (ABX) Now Available On-Premises

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  In this blog we are going to cover an enhancement to an already awesome capability with in Cloud Assembly know as Action Based Extensibility (check out the link to see what’s under the covers) or ABX. ABX is VMware’s serverless function capability built into Cloud Assembly. Prior to this months release of features into Cloud Read more...

Custom Host Naming in Cloud Assembly

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  When deploying virtual machines the very first ask for customization is almost always “How do we change the machine name?” or “How do we implement our custom machine naming convention?”. It’s an essential part of a deployment and has to be something that is out-of-the-box! In this blog we are going to cover the Read more...

Yes, We Use It Ourselves!! (VMware Code Stream)

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  VMware is a massive development shop!! I mean we have a TON of developers always cranking out new features and capabilities for our solutions. So, it is safe to say that we run into all of the same challenges that other companies that are developing applications run in to. In this post I am Read more...

Kubernetes Across vRealize Automation Cloud

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  In this post I am going to cover all the areas within vRealize Automation Cloud that can help deploy and manage upstream Kubernetes environments as well as deployments of applications to Kubernetes environments.   VMware Cloud Assembly:   PKS Integration: The first area within VMware Cloud Assembly that has integration to Kubernetes is the Read more...

Integrations Available For VMware Code Stream

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With VMware Code Stream you can speed software delivery and streamline troubleshooting with release pipelines and analytics. In this post we will go through many of the integrations that are possible with VMware Code Stream. You will see that there are SO many possibilities to interact with virtually any system to make advanced pipelines for Read more...

Native Objects From Azure and AWS In Cloud Assembly

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Cloud Assembly provides an awesome platform to create cloud agnostic blueprints that can be designed on the blueprint design canvas, or written directly from code (YAML), and then deployed to public and private clouds from the single blueprint. That’s a super cool feature but what if you need to use specific services from AWS or Read more...

Cloud Assembly Meets Google Cloud Platform

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  Cloud Assembly is the premier hybrid and multi-cloud orchestration platform to expedite the delivery of infrastructure and applications in line with DevOps principles.   In this blog we are going to focus on a new integration that has been released to Cloud Assembly. If you have worked with Cloud Assembly to date you know Read more...

What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.6

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  One of our missions at VMware is to provide the best in class private and multi-cloud management platform on the market. Having an easy to use, developer-ready, and quick time to value platform for automation is a critical factor to delivering services to your ever growing business. vRealize Automation is the flagship component for Read more...