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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

Working with REST


In this recipe, we will use the REST plugin. We will use it to connect to the Orchestrator Control Center REST API.

Getting ready

We need a REST-capable host you can contact. As every REST host handles things a little differently, we will use the REST interface Orchestrator and the Orchestrator Control Center, to showcase the functionality.

I have also collected some other Orchestrator-REST integration examples in the See also section of this recipe.

If you are new to REST, I would like to point you to the Accessing Orchestrator REST API recipe in Chapter 7, Interacting with Orchestrator.

How to do it...

This recipe is divided into connecting, gathering information, sending information, as well as creating workflows.

Connecting to a REST host

There are two methods (as of vRO7.1) to connect to a host. We will use the normal method here to connect to a REST host, as this showcases a lot of things you should know. The other one (using Swagger) is discussed in the There's more... section...

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