Does anyone use Orchestrator to manage Azure?

[Michael Cornn]

We have a multi-cloud environment, with on-prem vCenter and a Microsoft Azure subscription. 

In Aria Automation (soon to be VCF Automation), we deploy VMs to Azure in Assembler. This works well with the built-in Azure Cloud Account type. 

In Aria Automation's Orchestrator, we have no such option. We can't find an Orchestrator plugin for Azure. Is there no plugin available? It would be nice to have pre-built actions and workflows for common Azure tasks. 

For those who manage Azure within Aria/VCF Automation, which method do you use?

• An Azure plug-in (that I haven't found yet)
• Actions written as API calls to the Azure API
• A PowerShell host with the AZ Powershell Module

Though we don't use AWS or GCP, I'm curious to see how engineers manage those services in Automation. 

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[VMware-SimonSparks]

Hi there,

Yes there is an Azure Plugin for Aria Automation Orchestrator v8.18.x and also for VCF Operations Orchestrator v9.x

If you drop me an email [e-mail] I will help you get hold of it.

This is my blog where I post code samples for Orchestrator, I only have 2 for Azure at the moment but I have a HUGE library that I can share.

https://www.cloudbuildtools.com/category/code-library/code-library-orchestrator/functions/plugin-azure/

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Simon Sparks
Automation & Orchestration Consultant
VMware Professional Services CoE
North West England, UK, Europe
Broadcom Employee
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[Michael Cornn]

Thanks. I sent you an email

[mayank_goyal]

Download the official plugin from here https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/391736/azure-plugin-fails-to-load-on-aria-autom.html

Understand the JavaScript APIs here https://modernvroapi.in/#/plugin/o11n-plugin-azure

This is also a Dynamic Types plugin which you can try if above plugin not suffice your requirements https://github.com/vmwarecode/A-vRO-plugin-for-Azure

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[Michael Cornn]

Thanks for the link. That was really hard for me to find. I wish the Azure plugin was just put in the VCF Solutions Catalog like most other plugins.