Problem Ever crafted a meticulously designed workflow, only to have it fail midway through execution? The ensuing troubleshooting dilemma is familiar: manually complete the remaining steps or dism...

The following applies on Mac, but should work on Windows as well with proper Windows command accordingly. More documentation can be found here. Prerequisites Install Homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(cur...

Hey there! Do you happen to know how we can retry an async function on vRO? Let’s figure it out. Problem Let’s say we have some async function myFunction that we want to execute multiple times un...

Configuration Element on steroids Configuration element is one of the essential and outstanding features of vRO. It is recommended that some constant variables be updated manually from time to tim...

Implementation We’re going to create a new class SSH with a few methods: executeSshCommand setNewSshSessions Connecting with SSH to the remote server is always an asynchronous action. Ther...

Let’s see how we can use the built-in System.resolveHostName() method in vRO to resolve the FQDN to the IP address. Implementation We’re going to create a new class with a few methods: waitFo...

Let’s take a quick look at a simple one that returns the IP details of the VM running in VMware vCenter, using VSCode, Build Tools for VMware Aria, and Typescript project. Create a Class and a met...

I am a big fan of VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) especially. I followed up on this project since it wasn’t public yet, and from the beginning, ...

I got an idea to check if using Keycloak as an IdP for VMware Aria Automation is possible. Let’s find out. Keycloak configuration Export vIDM metadata Let’s explore integrating Keycloak (backed ...