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In this guide I will walk you through configuring the vSphere Jenkins Plugin to deploy VM’s to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. This way you can run your CI/CD Pipelines in the cloud and on-prem.
So I am in the middle of a new project and I needed to upload an OVF to vCloud Director. I downloaded and installed the Client integration plugin Several times with no luck. I finally found the following workaround:
The Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRealize Automation is here so let’s put it to good use by integrating it with vRealize Automation Blueprints! Pre-Reqs: Puppet Plugin Installed and Configured. See my guide here A Puppet master server running Puppet Enterprise 2016.4 or newer, or open source Puppet 4.6.2 or Continue reading How to integrate vRealize Automation with the Puppet Plugin 2.0
If you are trying to use the new Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRealize Automation workflows and you get an error when deploying a blueprint it is most likely The agent packages needed to support your platform, for example: el-7-x86_64 are not present on your Puppet Master. The error in the Continue reading Puppet Plugin 2.0 for vRO agent install workflow gotcha
I have been working with the new Puppet Plugin in my lab and I found the new workflows failing as they were referencing modules in the old 1.0 plugin. The workflows throw an error like Cannot find function escapeShellArgument in object Module:com.puppet.o11n.plugin.puppet
In this guide I will show you how to install and configure the new Puppet Plugin version 2.0 for vRealize Automation! Update: I have discovered that you will need to remove the 1.0 Puppet Plugin prior to following this guide. See why here.
VMware recently released a Beta version of a plugin for Docker volumes. I was curious to see if it also works on Photon Platform. Well it does! In this guide I will walk you through setting it up and then we will run my favorite app in a container to Continue reading How to use the Docker Volume Driver with Photon Platform
VMware recently released a Beta version of a plugin for Docker volumes for vSphere. In this guide I will walk you through setting it up and then we will run my favorite app in a container to show you how it works. In this guide I will be using vSphere Continue reading How to use the Docker Volume Driver for vSphere with Photon OS
In this guide I will walk you through installing and configuring the new Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator. This allows vRO to automate common tasks in Chef as well as integrate with cloud automation solutions like vRealize Automation. The plug-in includes out of the box workflows for the most common Continue reading How to install and configure Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
While playing around with the Puppet Plugin I was getting an error while running the install agent workflow. This was due to the fact I was trying to install an agent on an OS that is different than the Puppet master. You need to add additional classes to your puppet Continue reading vRO Puppet Plugin Agent Install Gotcha