- 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
Part I. Working with CloudForms Automate
Part I introduces the objects and concepts that we work with when we develop our automation scripts. Some of the chapters contain practical coding examples to assist the learning process, while others are more theoretical and contain background information to help build an overall understanding of the object model.
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