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vRA ABX Actions to create deployment notifications and send to email and cloud-based notification channels. Completely replaces the out-of-the-box notification scenarios of vRA and allows multi-tenant customisation and personality.

Notifications are one of the primary tools for a Cloud Management Platform consumer to know what is happening with their deployment. This article will present an alternative method from the out-of-the-box functionality in vRealize Automation in order to improve on the design, content, and architecture of these email notifications. Notifications can be sent via Email, Slack, Teams, and Zoom…

Please check out my latest article on vRA Tips and Tricks!

This article series will focus on specific tips and tricks to aid customisation and flexibility of vRA 8.x. Contents: Part 1 – Array expressions Part 2 – Ternary Logic Part 3 – Property Groups I have always been a fan of abstracting personality from code – this leads to being able to handle changes better and aids portability. To this purpose I have been a heavy user of vRA Property Groups…

Part 2 of the vRA Tips and Tricks series discussing Ternary Logic within Cloud Templates.

This article series will focus on specific tips and tricks to aid customisation and flexibility of vRA 8.x. Table of Contents Part 1 – Array Expression in Cloud TemplatesPart 2 – Ternary Logic Ternary Logic Otherwise known as three-valued logic, this logic system differs from the Boolean True and False that we use more commonly by adding a third value. Simplistically this would present…