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Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Updated Information
- Using Scenarios
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introducing vRealize Automation
- Tenancy and User Roles
- Service Catalog
- Infrastructure as a Service
- XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- Common Components
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
- Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
- Configuring Business-Relevant Services
- Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
- Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
- Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
- Calling vRealize Automation Services from External Applications
- Distributed Execution
- Index
Users responsible for managing the catalog, such as tenant administrators and service architects, can
manage the presentation of catalog items to the consumers of IT services, for example by grouping items
into service categories for easier navigation and highlighting new services to consumers on the portal home
page.
Containers Overview
You can use containers to gain access to additional instrumentation for developing and deploying
applications in vRealize Automation.
Containers for vRealize Automation allows vRealize Automation to support containers. You can provision
an application that is built from containers or from a combination of containers and VMs.
Container administrators can use Containers to perform the following tasks:
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Model containerized applications in vRealize Automation blueprints.
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Provision container hosts from the vRealize Automation service catalog.
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Manage container hosts from within vRealize Automation.
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Create or add hosts, and congure hosts. host congurations.
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Set resource quotas for containers.
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Work with templates, images, and registries.
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Create and edit blueprints in the vRealize Automation service catalog.
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Develop multi-container templates.
Container architects can add container components to a vRealize Automation blueprint.
The integrated Containers application uses the Docker Remote API to provision and manage containers,
including retrieving information about container instances. From a deployment perspective, developers can
use Docker Compose to create their application and deploy it through Containers in vRealize Automation.
Because that application is ready to be promoted from development to production, developers can enhance
the application to include dynamic networks or micro-segmentation.
Cloud administrators can manage the container host infrastructure, for example to govern capacity quotas
and approval workows.
Use the Containers Context-Sensitive Help
When working with Containers for vRealize Automation, you have access to a context-sensitive help system
that dynamically displays content for the task that you are currently performing.
After you open the Containers help system, the page content automatically updates based on your location
in the Containers user interface. You can view the Containers help system in a separate window, on a second
screen, or from a mobile device in parallel with the primary interface.
You can use the Containers help system outside of the trusted network and still receive instant
documentation page updates relative to where your cursor is in the Containers application.
1 Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a container administrator.
2 Click the Containers tab.
3 Click Help on the Containers Welcome page, next to the Add a Host buon.
You can refresh the web browser to redisplay the Welcome page.
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