validateOnly everywhere: plan mode for infrastructure
Terraform has plan. Kubernetes has –dry-run. Your vRO workflows have nothing, unless you give them a validateOnly input and pass it down. The most valuable checkbox in the lab factory.
VCF Automation
VCF Automation 9.1 both ways: VM Apps (templates, vRO, the event broker) and All Apps (CCI blueprints on the Supervisor, VM Service, the catalog, custom forms and property groups).
Porting a PowerShell deploy script to a catalog item: the mapping table is the post
A 400-line menu-driven PowerShell script became a cloud template, two vRO actions and two subscriptions. Where each behaviour belongs, four non-obvious decisions, and the ‘yes’ that isn’t ’true’.
Driving the VCF Installer API from vRO: generate, validate, start, walk away
Stage 2 of the lab factory: a vRO workflow turns an environment number into a VCF 9.1 deployment spec, validates it and starts bringup, because the request dies long before the eight-hour build does.