Managing AD users with vRA

In this recipe, we will explore the full spectrum of the Orchestrator/vRA integration. You will learn how to create custom resources and actions and how to integrate and use them.

Getting ready

In order to add an Orchestrator workflow as a vRA Catalog item, you should have the following vRA items configured:

• Entitlements

• Services

• Business groups

To configure these items, please refer to the link shown in the introduction of this chapter or take a look at the official VMware documentation for vRA.

The Design tab must be activated as shown in the Integrating Orchestrator workflows as XaaS Blueprints recipe in this chapter.

You also have to add the AD endpoint as shown in the Adding an Orchestrator endpoint recipe in this chapter, and the AD endpoint needs to be configured with SSL for this recipe to work.

How to do it...

We have split this recipe into multiple sections. Work though them one after another.

Creating a custom resource

We will first need to create a custom resource...