- Preface
- I. Working with CloudForms Automate
- 1. Introduction to CloudForms
- 2. Introduction to the Automate Datastore
- 3. Writing and Running Our Own Automation Scripts
- 4. Using Schema Variables
- 5. Working with Virtual Machines
- 6. Peeping Under the Hood
- 7. $evm and the Workspace
- 8. A Practical Example: Enforcing Anti-Affinity Rules
- 9. Using Tags from Automate
- Creating Tags and Categories
- Assigning and Removing Tags
- Testing Whether an Object Is Tagged
- Retrieving an Object’s Tags
- Searching for Specifically Tagged Objects
- Getting the List of Tag Categories
- Getting the List of Tags in a Category
- Finding a Tag’s Name, Given Its Description
- Finding a Specific Tag (MiqAeServiceClassification) Object
- Deleting a Tag Category
- Summary
- 10. Investigative Debugging
- 11. Ways of Entering Automate
- 12. Requests and Tasks
- 13. State Machines
- 14. More Advanced Schema Features
- 15. Event Processing
- II. Provisioning Virtual Machines
- 16. Provisioning a Virtual Machine
- 17. The Provisioning Profile
- 18. Approval
- 19. Quota Management
- 20. The Options Hash
- 21. The Provisioning State Machine
- 22. Customizing Virtual Machine Provisioning
- 23. Virtual Machine Naming During Provisioning
- 24. Virtual Machine Placement During Provisioning
- 25. The Provisioning Dialog
- 26. Virtual Machine Provisioning Objects
- 27. Creating Provisioning Requests Programmatically
- 28. Integrating with Satellite 6 During Provisioning
- III. Working with Services
- 29. Service Dialogs
- 30. The Service Provisioning State Machine
- 31. Catalog{Item,Bundle}Initialization
- 32. Approval and Quota
- 33. Creating a Service Catalog Item
- 34. Creating a Service Catalog Bundle
- 35. Service Objects
- 36. Log Analysis During Service Provisioning
- 37. Service Hierarchies
- 38. Service Reconfiguration
- 39. Service Tips and Tricks
- IV. Retirement
- 40. Virtual Machine and Instance Retirement
- 41. Service Retirement
- V. Integration
- 42. Calling Automation Using the RESTful API
- 43. Automation Request Approval
- 44. Calling External Services
- VI. Miscellaneous
- 45. Distributed Automation Processing
- 46. Argument Passing and Handling
- 47. Miscellaneous Tips
- Index