No Code Required For Functional Workflows

October 03, 2011

If you think you have to be a development guru that knows programming languages in order to create functional workflows with vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) then think again! With hundreds of worfklows and actions to use as building blocks with a vanilla install of vCO, you can be on your way to creating workflows in no time. While it is true that JavaScript is used for the scriptable tasks within Orchestrator, you don't actually have to write any code for some simple, but functional, workflows.

Our colleague, Bill Call, has put together just such a workflow. He has been kind enough to write it up in the format of a tutorial over at the VMware Blogs so be sure to check it out!

Burke has been a technology professional since 1996 and has held certifications from the CNCF, Cisco, Citrix, ITIL, Linux Professional Institute, Microsoft, Novell, and VMware. He joined VMware in 2007 as part of the acquisition of Dunes Technologies from Lausanne, Switzerland where he had begun his work with Orchestrator. Burke is founder and contributor of the vCOTeam.info blog as well as a leading contributor to the VMTN Communities for Orchestrator. He has been recognized by the community as a vExpert since 2010. During his tenure at VMware, Burke co-created the Orchestrator Masters Training program, has trained hundreds of employees on Orchestrator, built many integrations for customers and partners, and has worked various roles in the VMworld Hands On Labs. He has also been a member, and technical lead, of the SDDC Livefire program, building content, labs, and vPods for the program. Publications include contributing author for ‘VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT)’ (VMware Press 2013) and technical resource for ‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition’, ‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials (Packt Publishing 2015), Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press 2012), and VMware vSphere for Dummies (For Dummies 2011).