Recently I was on working on scenario where we want to provide the lease date of VM at the time of submission. It is well known feature in 7.x which we get .
In VRA 8.x we can play with lease only with Day 2 actions.
With the help of extensibility you can provide the lease time during submission and use extensibility to trigger abx flow/ workflow as day 2.
The flow looks like below .
Here is my Yaml looks like.
formatVersion: 1
inputs:
leaseDate:
type: string
title: Lease Date
format: date-time
resources:
Cloud_Network_1:
type: Cloud.Network
properties:
constraints:
- tag: 'vsphere:network'
networkType: existing
Cloud_vSphere_Machine_1:
type: Cloud.vSphere.Machine
properties:
image: Images
abxaction: 'yes'
leaseDate: '${input.leaseDate}'
cpuCount: 1
totalMemoryMB: 1024
awaitIp: false
customizeGuestOs: false
storage:
constraints:
- tag: 'vsphere:ds'
constraints:
- tag: 'vsphere:cluster'
networks:
- network: '${resource.Cloud_Network_1.id}'
Here us my Catalog log request will look like.
It is simple blueprint and catalog request where I am using date-time as format in input and will be using for my ABX flow .
Here is the quick look of both abx action in flow
1. VRAtoken
2. Extend Lesse
import requests
import json
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)
def handler(context, inputs):
vrafqdn = inputs['vrafqdn']
username = inputs['username']
password = inputs['password']
domain =inputs['domain']
refreshtokenurl = f"https://{vrafqdn}/csp/gateway/am/api/login?access_token"
iaasUrl = f"https://{vrafqdn}/iaas/api/login"
headers = {
'accept': "application/json",
'content-type': "application/json"
}
payload = {
"username": username,
"password": password,
"domain": domain
}
apioutput = requests.post(refreshtokenurl, data=json.dumps(payload), verify=False, headers=headers)
if apioutput.status_code == 200:
refreshtoken = apioutput.json()['refresh_token']
iaasPayload = f'{{"refreshToken": "{refreshtoken}"}}'
iaasApiOutput = requests.post(iaasUrl, data=iaasPayload, headers=headers, verify=False).json()['token']
bearerToken = "Bearer " + iaasApiOutput
outputs = {}
outputs['vratoken'] = bearerToken
return outputs
else:
print(apioutput.status_code)
print(apioutput.json())
import requests
import json
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)
def handler(context, inputs):
token = inputs['vratoken']
vrafqdn = inputs['vrafqdn']
deploymentid = inputs['deploymentId']
print(token)
print(deploymentid)
leasedate = inputs['requestInputs']['leaseDate']
url = f'https://{vrafqdn}/deployment/api/deployments/{deploymentid}/requests'
headers = {
'accept': "application/json",
'content-type': "application/json",
'authorization': token
}
data = {
"actionId": "Deployment.ChangeLease",
"inputs": {
'Lease Expiration Date': leasedate
}
}
jdata = json.dumps(data)
apioutput = requests.post(url, headers=headers,data=jdata, verify=False)
print(apioutput)
print(apioutput.json())
Here is the quick look for ABX flow
Once we are done with setting the flow , Last Part which is left is configuring the subscription.
Here is the quick look how my subscription looks like , we will be setting this on Deployment completed.
I am using filter so that it can only run for completed event.
event.data.eventType == "CREATE_DEPLOYMENT" && event.data.status == "FINISHED"
Disclaimer : My VRA lab has internet connectivity , so I can use any module online , you may need to make the action as module and zip it ,before you use as ABX action/flow . If you are using VRA Cloud then we can use as it is without any change.
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