Welcome to Autoug.io

The Automation User Group

This Repo is for sharing content, links, etc from meetings, and for discussion Automation, with other peers.

Events

• Main event site : http://events.autoug.io
  
• Next meeting : TBD

Recordings and Presentations from previus meetings.

July 2021

• Full recording : https://youtu.be/rONUykgB-00
• Krisztian session material : https://kuklis.github.io/cma/post/vra8-servicenow-approval/
• Katarina K8S website : http://advecti.io

April 2021

• Full recording : https://youtu.be/r-FmvxiPq1I

January 2021

Back to Basics: Getting started with Docker - Robert Jensen

• Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLJL1u-Hvs&t=256s
• Git Repo : https://github.com/rhjensen79/b2b-docker
• Presentation : https://github.com/rhjensen79/b2b-docker/blob/master/presentation.pdf

vRealize Automation & Terraform: a New Way to Deploy - Gary Flynn

• Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLJL1u-Hvs&t=2370s
• Blog post : https://garyflynn.com/technology/hashicorp/vra-and-terraform-a-new-way-to-deploy/
• Presentation : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/blob/master/Presentations/January2021/terraform-gary.pdf

Creating VM templates with Packer - Michael Poore

• Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLJL1u-Hvs&t=4840s
• Presentation : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/blob/master/Presentations/January2021/vSphere%20and%20Packer%20-%20%40mpoore.pdf
• Blog : https://blog.v12n.io/
• Packer Page : https://blog.v12n.io/packer
• Packer Articles : https://blog.v12n.io/tag/packer
• Github Repo : https://github.com/v12n-io/autoug-demo
• Docker Hub : https://hub.docker.com/r/v12nio/codestream-ci-packer

Ansible & HashiCorp Vault: a perfect match - Mark Brookfield

• Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLJL1u-Hvs&t=7670s
• Git Repo : https://github.com/autoug/playbooks
• Presentation : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/blob/master/Presentations/January2021/Ansible%20&%20Vault%20-%20Mark.pptx?raw=true

Full Recording

• https://youtu.be/QPLJL1u-Hvs

December 2020

• Intro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9gpMWqMF0&t=12s
• VEBA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9gpMWqMF0&t=297s
• SaltStack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9gpMWqMF0&t=3860s
• Presentations from the meeting : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/tree/master/Presentations/December2020

Oktober 2020

• Intro : https://youtu.be/EJkYcFvH0ZQ
• VCF : https://youtu.be/EJkYcFvH0ZQ?t=239
• Chat due to network fallout : https://youtu.be/EJkYcFvH0ZQ?t=3752
• ABX : https://youtu.be/EJkYcFvH0ZQ?t=4169
• Presentations from the meeting : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/tree/master/Presentations/Oktober2020

September 2020

• Intro : https://youtu.be/HCPXxYoTLlI
• Tales from the field : https://youtu.be/HCPXxYoTLlI?t=250
• Terraform in VRA : https://youtu.be/HCPXxYoTLlI?t=3877
• Free discussions : https://youtu.be/HCPXxYoTLlI?t=6017
• Presentation from the meeting : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/tree/master/Presentations/September2020

August 2020

• Intro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRQkWL4e-M&t=0s
• Automatisering med Veeam Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRQkWL4e-M&t=178s
• Vra 8.1 Whats New Recording : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRQkWL4e-M&t=3346s
• Presentations from the meeting : https://github.com/autoug/meetings/tree/master/Presentations/August2020

Feedback

• Feedback from meetings : https://forms.gle/71ni1ZnCouNu9ETHA
  

Flings

• Main Site : https://flings.vmware.com
  
• Power VRA Cloud : https://flings.vmware.com/power-vra-cloud
  
• vCenter Event Broker Appliance : https://flings.vmware.com/vcenter-event-broker-appliance
  
• vRealize Build Tools : https://flings.vmware.com/vrealize-build-tools
  
• vRA Cloud Python Services : https://flings.vmware.com/cloud-automation-services-sdk-for-python
  

Training

• Youtube playlist, with short VRA videos : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1otMUOI1Js&list=PLclJ2j-mkO9bWxn9RRcWMDSqtrlXNnbEg
  
• @SpasKaloferov Zero2Hero: Cloud Assembly ABX Actions – Part 1 : https://t.co/qkhvhMUM5s?amp=1
• @SpasKaloferov Zero2Hero: Cloud Assembly ABX Actions – Part 2 : https://t.co/HrNJCteNB5?amp=1
• @SpasKaloferov Zero2Hero: Cloud Template YAML : https://youtu.be/BTykosSsXok
• @embano1 VMware Code Practical Git - Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EkomxvCscQ
• @embano1 VMware Code Practical Git - Deck : https://speakerdeck.com/embano1/vmware-code-power-session-git-07-2020
• @sammcgeown Automating Secrets with HashiCorp Vault and VRA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srY3vJVZU1s&ab_channel=VMware%7Bcode%7D
• @VMware vRealize Automation Migration 7.x to 8.2 : https://learning.customerconnect.vmware.com/oltpublish/site/coursePlayer.do?dispatch=show&courseSessionId=257427db-3568-11eb-8167-0cc47adeb5f8

Links

• Robert's Repo for extensibility in VRA : https://github.com/rhjensen79/vra-extensibility
  
• Post deployment notification on Slack : https://code.vmware.com/samples/6699/post-deployment-notification-on-slack?h=Sample#
• VMware CMBU jurney with Code Stream : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/06/yes-we-use-it-ourselves-vmware-code-stream.html
• Show time saved by Automation with VRA : https://code.vmware.com/samples/6698/show-time-saved-by-using-vra-for-deployments?h=Sample
• VRA Multi tenancy blog from VMwareLab : https://vmwarelab.org/2020/04/14/vrealize-automation-8-1-multi-tenancy-setup-with-vrealize-suite-lifecycle-manager-8-1/
• VRA Multi Tenancy blog from theCloudExpert : https://thecloudxpert.net/2020/05/02/howto-configure-multi-org-tenancy-in-vra81-series/
• VRA Cloud API Documentation : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/09/cloud-automation-services-api-first.html
• Terraform Provider for VRA : https://github.com/vmware/terraform-provider-vra
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Code-Stream/services/Using-and-Managing-VMware-Code-Stream.pdf
  
• VRA Resource type Schema : https://code.vmware.com/apis/894/vrealize-automation-resource-type-schema
• Jenkins plugin for VRA : https://github.com/jenkinsci/vrealize-automation-8-plugin
• HowTo connect to vRA API : https://vra4u.com/2020/06/26/vra-8-1-quick-tip-api-authentication/
• vRA API tips (Getting started, filtering, Odata, etc) : https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d2e4e058-df27-4ac1-a100-4dfd0ef774c0/cb3a080c-8e25-4492-9f1e-ff923ec1b98c/tips.html
• Rainpole Packer repository : https://github.com/rainpole/packer-vsphere

Other

• vUpdate - VMware podcast : https://anchor.fm/vupdate
• VMworld 2020 Cloud Management content : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/09/vmworld-vra.html
• SaltStack ressourcer : https://github.com/hbokh/awesome-saltstack
• How to Migrate from vRealize Automation 7.x to 8.2 Today : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/01/how-to-migrate-from-vrealize-automation-7-x-to-8-2-today.html
• Building a K8S homelab, a serie - currently 1-8 : https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/building-the-home-lab-kubernetes-playground-part-1
• Learn Codestream Website : https://learncodestream.github.io
• The Ultimate Terraform cheatsheet : https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-ultimate-terraform-cheatsheet

Products Whats New Updates

• VRA 8.4 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/04/whats-new-with-vrealize-automation-8-4-technical-overview.html
• VRA 8.3 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/02/whats-new-with-vrealize-automation-8-3-technical-overview.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-new-with-vrealize-automation-8-3-technical-overview
• VROPS 8.3 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/02/whats-new-in-vrealize-operations-8-3.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-new-in-vrealize-operations-8-3
• LCM 8.2 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/10/vrealize-suite-lifecycle-manager.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vrealize-suite-lifecycle-manager
• Log Insight 8.4 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/04/whats-new-in-vrealize-log-insight-8-4.html
• Log Insight 8.3 Whats New : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2021/02/whats-new-in-vrealize-log-insight-8-3.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-new-in-vrealize-log-insight-8-3