Sharing is caring. With this article, I want to share experience playing with vSphere Integrated Container in my latest project.

Two things that I want to cover:

1. Architecture and the reason
2. The issue and workaround

1. Architecture

vSphere Deployment setup:

a. As you can see, in the vSphere environment, I separate management with workload, and also using external PSC.

b. There’s also standalone Harbor. Two reasons this harbor installed:

1. standalone harbor is more stable even tough require manual installation
2. issue with VIC authentication to PSC integration and certificate

c. Image building mechanisme are provided from VRA catalog

1. Request Centos Docker Host as VM. This VM then act as docker client to private registry and also to VCH
2. Request DCH as container. For this method, the developer require external docker client

0. Preparation for VRO REST API

a. Create HTTP-REST object to Ansible Tower API

Have you ever frustated why email notification on all stages (submission, approval, success) has 0 GB when using custom form combined with image component profile?
This procedure specifically for VRA 7.5. Note for VRA 7.4, you just need to attach the storage element and then put some value into it because the property already defined. But in VRA 7.5 the default submit set to false and no property to adjust the value.

#set( $curKey = "component${index}-storage" )