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VMware vCloud Director REST API with Terraform
Ludovic Rivallain Nov 8, 2024 · 4 min read ·
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If you work with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and Terraform regularly, you're likely familiar with the vcd provider for interacting with the vCD API. This provider is an excellent tool for automating the deployment of vCD resources and managing the lifecycle of your virtual datacenters.
However, you may have noticed …

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Bookmark – VMware Cloud Director: Notification Message Format
Ludovic Rivallain Feb 17, 2021 · 1 min read ·
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VMware Cloud Director API Programming Guide: Notification Message Format
If it does not work:
- Search VMware Cloud Director API Programming Guide into code.vmware.com
- Look for section Configuring and Using Blocking Tasks and Notifications
- Look for sub-section Notification Message Format
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Use VMware Container Service Extension with a corporate proxy
Ludovic Rivallain Nov 26, 2020 · 6 min read ·
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The current post is a quickstart to VMware open-source project Container Service Extension (CSE), a Kubernetes as a Service for VMware vCloud Director.
The project is already well documented (CSE documentation) and you should not have any trouble to set it up by following the installation steps.
Except... if you plan …

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Object notfound in vRO using the vCloud Director plugin
Antoine Harlaut Apr 25, 2020 · 2 min read ·
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A strange behavior has happened just after vRO installation and vCloud director plugin configuration, I wasn't able to interact with any objects managed by the vcloud director plugin.
I created a simple workflow on my lab to illustrate the issue.
The workflow cannot be more basic as it has only a single line of code to …

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vCloud Director – Change the timeout configuration for extensibility
Ludovic Rivallain Apr 20, 2020 · 1 min read ·
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Use following commands to set a customized value for request timeout for API extension services:
SSH to the vCloud cell(s) then:
1cd /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin 2# Get the current value 3./cell-management-tool manage-config -n extensibility.timeout -l 4# Change value 5./cell-management-tool manage-config -n …
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REST ❤ Swagger, 2 minutes to create an API SDK ⏱ – Codegen Demo – Part 2
Ludovic Rivallain Apr 9, 2020 · 7 min read ·
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After a short introduction of Swagger Codegen and the context of the demo made for a French vMUG Webinar, we will see how to apply this to VMware products like vCenter and vCloud Director.
As this post is following the steps made in the part 1, I strongly encourage you to start with the previous post.
Pre-requisites …

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REST ❤ Swagger, 2 minutes to create an API SDK ⏱ – Codegen Demo – Part 1
Ludovic Rivallain Apr 1, 2020 · 6 min read ·
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On March 30^th, I presented a webinar to the French VMUG community on the REST API subject and in particular on the way to generate API SDK clients without writing any code.
Slide deck is published (only in french, sorry) here: vupti.me/rls.
As said in the slide deck, this presentation was greatly inspired by a VMworld …

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vCloud Director 9.5 – Publish UI Plugin to specific organizations
Ludovic Rivallain Aug 5, 2019 · 1 min read ·
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Use these (with caution) commands to publish a vCloud Director's UI plugin to specific organisations of your deployment:
1# Prepare settings 2vcloud_host="vcd.vuptime.io" # specify your vcd host 3vcloud_token="ff27f9fde1784b4289c58e7f848190c7" # specify an auth token for a system administrator …
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Extending VMware vCloud Director functionalities
Ludovic Rivallain May 6, 2019 · 8 min read ·
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This post is the English translation of the one published on blog.groupe-sii.com to present a new kind of development activities in SII Group: the extension of the VMware vCloud Director portal.
The post will explain the concept that enables the extension of this VMware product to add new functionalities to the native …

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VMware vCloud Director – Change SSL certificates
Ludovic Rivallain Jul 24, 2018 · 2 min read ·
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The following procedure is a self-reminder of How-To replace the certificates of a VMware vCloud Director deployment.
Prepare informations
Here is a configuration sample for a single cell deployment. Change settings according to your needs:
If you are using multi-cells deployment, I stronlgy recommend you to extend …

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Prepare informations