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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from  VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Pages 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Version control


In this recipe, we will look at how to use the Orchestrator version control and use it to control your software development. Version control is part of almost all elements.

Getting ready

A working Orchestrator is required, and you will need the rights to create new workflows and run them. We will work with the Orchestrator Client.

We need an existing workflow that we can play around with. In this recipe, we will use the 00.00 BasicWorkflow workflow of the example package. The finished example is the 04.02 VersionControl example workflow.

How to do it...

We will use a workflow for this example; however, it works for other elements too:

  1. Make a duplicate of the 00.00 BasicWorkflow workflow.

  2. Click on General and have a look at the current version (see the following screenshot).

  3. Open the workflow for editing by right-clicking on it and selecting Edit.

  4. Drag a system log element from the log section into the schema.

  5. Bind the text in-parameter to an existing string variable.

  6. Click on General...

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