IT Proficiency Development

The path of the Infra Cloud Automation Jedi (VMware based cloud implementation)    This is the path according to my understandings of what infrastructure automation developer should be. And we the Developers are hard guys, with their own hard opinions and views, so I guess, somebody else may come with another path - well that is fine and could work as well. Also this is kind-a initial draft version of my path, I could introduce some corrections to it later.  Assuming following starting point and concentrating on Automation only: IT Admin or Dev Ops engineer in any of the hardware or Software stack.   Understanding well how a datacenter works. Assuming some knowledge in virtualization technologies maybe some vCenter knowledge. Knowledge for the compute, storage, networking, firewalling, backup, monitoring, pricing and etc in the datacenter.   0. Do I want this??? - Beginner automation developer 1. Get any programi...

If you need to train or test vRA and vRO automation, scripting, researching products etc, and you do not have a lab where to do it yet, You can Go and Do it here: http://labs.hol.vmware.com Just check for example following environments/labs: HOL-1821-01-CMP - vRealize Automation 7 - Getting Started HOL-1821-02-CMP - vRealize Automation 7 - Advanced Topics HOL-1821-03-CMP - vRealize Automation 7 - Advanced Extensibility HOL-1821-05-CMP - vRealize Orchestrator - Getting Started You can enroll them multiple times, extend them up to a specific limit of time etc. It is all for free, requires just a registration. Also there are labs environments for all VMWare products, it is really nice service from VMWare.

Some time ago, while reading and searching for information for vRO-vRA development and automation I found very interesting article, which pointed me to a very good vRO training. Starting from that one and accumulating it with some memories on how I started with vRO I decided to create this post. Maybe it will help somebody to start with vRO automation in some way. In this post I will try to provide some vRO intro and free training materials as well. Intro So the main reason I like the training I found is because it aims to getting people into workflow development. This means it don’t focus on products installation or plugin installations, but more on specifically how you can develop and code the workflows. And actually this is the most important part if you can develop the workflows you can easily learn the other parts as well. The course contains the following 7 modules: Getting Started – A tour of vRealize Orchestrator and the components. Building Workflows – Approac...