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The OneFuse Active Directory (AD) module offers features for placing deployed computer objects into the appropriate Active Directory (AD) organizational units (OU). This includes support for pre-build organization units (OU), final Organizational Unit placement, as well as placement of computer objects into Active Directory (AD) security groups.
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In this article we are going to add OneFuse DNS support to a vRA8 blueprint. If you have been following my previous articles you probably have an idea of how this is going to work. We are going to build upon the examples from previous articles by leveraging the same blueprint that we created in the article “vRA8 with OneFuse: IPAM integration”.
By the end of this article, we will have a blueprint that leverages OneFuse to generate a name, assign Network/IP Address as well as create DNS records for the deployed machine. Although these examples are simple and static, they are setting the foundation for future articles where we will dive into creating more flexible and dynamic blueprints.
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Automating the creation of DNS records is becoming increasingly more important in the enterprise. One bad record or typo can cause outages or mission critical services. In this article, I’m going to walk through creating a DNS Policy in OneFuse using Infoblox as a DNS provider.
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Yes you read the title correct. Cloudbolt is now giving away the Property Toolkit capability that is part of OneFuse for FREE. If you are not familiar with the OneFuse or its Property Toolkit capabilities below are some links to help get you familiar:
The OneFuse Property Toolkit is the Swiss army knife of the OneFuse Platform. It can be used in many different ways to assist you in meeting your automation needs. It can be used to simplify configurations, define business logic as configuration, build simple logic or tackle the most complex problems. In its simplest form its meta-data that can be used as a reference offering simple name value pairs that can be used as a reference for decision making. In its most powerful form it can contain logic, decision trees, platform abstractions, and much more.
It’s a blank canvas waiting to solve the needs of any organization. A common use for the Property Toolkit is to centrally define organizational business logic as configuration that can be used to standardize across different tools allowing you to centralize your business logic and maintain standards across the organization.
Stay tuned for more articles on how you can use this awesome free capability to help achieve your automation goals.
To stay up to date on the latest OneFuse developments, ask questions, share use cases, or just say hello head over to https://onefuse.cloudbolt.io and signup for the OneFuse community.
In the “Getting Started with the OneFuse Property Toolkit” article we looked at ways the property toolkit can be leveraged to help standardize configurations across platforms. We also look at a few of the capabilities that it offers. In this article we are going to look at some of the ways the Property Toolkit can be utilized within vRA8.
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The OneFuse Property Toolkit is the Swiss army knife of the OneFuse Platform. It can be used in many different ways to assist you in meeting your automation needs. It can be used to simplify configurations, define business logic as configuration, build simple logic or tackle the most complex problems. In its simplest form its meta-data that can be used as a reference offering simple name value pairs that can be used as a reference for decision making. In its most powerful form it can contain logic, decision trees, platform abstractions, and much more.
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If you have read some of my other articles you have heard me mention the OneFuse Terraform provider, but only that it has one. Well in this article we are going to dive right in and take a first hand look at how awesome it really is.
For those of you that know me, you probably know I’m a long time die hard vRA fanboy going all the way back to before it was vRA in the DynamicOps days. Well I’m still a bit of a vRA fanboy, but I’m really in love with Terraform. Not just Terraform, but Terraform with OneFuse.
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OneFuse IPAM policies have some special qualities that make managing IPAM integrations very easy, flexible, and portable. IPAM policies in OneFuse define the network or networks they represent abstracted from the actual IPAM provider. This offers many benefits over network definitions that are tightly tied to a specific provider. This allows for the use of more than one provider in the environment, it also allows for easy migration from one IPAM provider to another.
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In this article, I am going to walk you through creating a Naming Policy within OneFuse. Before we begin, I want to go over why OneFuse Naming is a game changer for organizations. Many of you reading this may be thinking you don’t need an integration for naming. Read on, and I’ll explain why you may want to think otherwise.
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In my previous article “Deploying the OneFuse Appliance”, we deployed OneFuse and was able to login to begin the configuration.
In this article, we are going to configure a few useful items within the OneFuse platform that will be used when we begin to configure the modules for specific integrations.
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