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March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

vRA8 with OneFuse: IPAM Integration

In this article, we are going to create a vRA8 blueprint that utilizes the OneFuse IPAM module to provide IPAM integration for provisioned workloads. We won’t just be supplying IP information to vRA8 in this example, OneFuse will determine the network placement as well. We will have a future article on using intelligent placement decisions and dynamic assignments within OneFuse as well as using vRA to drive network placement with OneFuse using vRA network profiles and constraint tags.

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

Creating a OneFuse Active Directory Policy

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.

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

vRA8 with OneFuse: DNS Integration

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.

March 18, 2021

Creating a OneFuse DNS Policy

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.

March 18, 2021March 17, 2021

Installing the OneFuse Workflow Package into vRA8

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how easy it is to install the OneFuse workflow package into vRA8. Once the workflow package is installed you will be able to take advantage of all that OneFuse has to offer within vRA8.

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

OneFuse Property Toolkit is now FREE

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.

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

vRA with OneFuse: Property Toolkit

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.

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Getting Started with OneFuse Property Toolkit

The OneFuse Property Toolkit is the Swiss army knife of the OneFuse Platform

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

vRA8 with OneFuse: Custom Naming

In this article we are going to walk through using OneFuse to name a deployed machine in vRA8. To do this we will create a new blueprint within vRA8 and call upon the OneFuse to name it using the naming policy we created as part of “Creating a OneFuse Naming Policy ”.

By the end of this article we will have created a blueprint that will deploy a vSphere machine that is named using the OneFuse Naming module. While this will be a simple example we will build upon this in later articles to showcase the advanced capabilities offered by OneFuse as a platform.

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

Creating a OneFuse IPAM Policy

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.