vRealize Automation 8.x

This plugin lets you create, manage and destroy virtual machines, networks, load balancers and other resources managed by vRealize Automation 8.x.

The plugin is currently focused on pipelines rather than freestyle project. If you see a need for support for freestyle, please open an issue and we will put that on the roadmap for future development.

Install the plugin, either by selecting it from the plugin library in Jenkins (coming soon) or by uploading the HPI file.

In your application repository, create a Jenkinsfile with contents similar to this:

node {
    // Submit a deployment request and wait for it complete
    def deployment = vraDeployFromCatalog(
            catalogItemName: '<catalog item name>',
            count: 1,
            deploymentName: 'Jenkins-#',
            projectName: '<project name>',
            reason: 'I have my reasons!',
            timeout: 300,
            version: '2',
            inputs: '{ username: \'testuser\' }')
    assert deployment != null

    // Wait for the machine to receive a valid IP address. 
    def addr = vraWaitForAddress(
            deploymentId: deployment[0].id,
            resourceName: '<name of a machine within the blueprint>')
    echo "Deployed: $deployment[0].id, addresses: ${addr}"
}

That's it! Create a pipeline project in Jenkins that's linked to your repository, and you can start using it.

You have now deployed a machine and received an IP address for it. You may use it for SSH steps etc.

There are two authentication mechanism available: API key or username/password. The latter only works for on-premises deployments of vRealize Automation and does NOT work for the SaaS form factor.

A vRealize Automation API token is simply an Oauth refresh token and is typically valid for six months. It is obtained in different ways depending on whether you are using the SaaS/Cloud form factor or an on-premises deployment of vRealize Automation.

1. Click on the dropdown in the upper right corner (your user name).
2. Select "My Account"
3. Select the "API Tokens" tab
4. Click "Generate Token" and assign the appropriate roles
5. Make a note of the API token. This is the only time it will be visible!

The API token isn't available in the UI with the on-premises form factor, but can be obtained through a REST call using e.g. cURL:

curl --location --request POST 'https://<vRA8.1-URL>/csp/gateway/am/api/login?access_token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
	"username": "username",
	"password": "password",
	"domain": "System Domain | AD Domain"
}'

The API token is returned in the refresh_token JSON field of the response.

Since the API token isn't readily available in the on-premises form factor, we also provide username/password authentication. Please note that this is available only for the on-premises form factor.

To use username/password authentication, provide the username, password and domain parameters that are available for all steps.

This plugin allows you to configure the address of the vRealize Automation environment, the API key, as well as username and password if the API key isn't used. This is useful when you're only interacting with a single instance of vRealize Automation and allows you to omit address and credentials from the actual pipelines. The credentials are configured as a reference to a standard Jenkins string credential or username/password credential (only available for on-premises vRealize Automation)

• vraDeleteDeployment - Deleta a deployment and its resources
• vraDeployFromCatalog - Deploy from a catalog item
• vraGetDeployment - Get details about a deployment
• vraGetResourceActionDetails - Get detailed metadata for a specific resource action
• vraGetResourceActions - Get summarized metadata all actions of a resource
• vraRunAction - Run a day two operation
• vraWaitForAddress - Wait until a resource has a valid address and return it

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We strongly encourage contributions to this project and would love to include your code and ideas! For details, please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md