Now have the ability to consume vCA (vCloud Air) services through vCA CLI Docker image.
vCA CLI – Command Line Interface for VMware vCloud Air was launched recently for Ubuntu and Mac OS X. It supports vCloud Air On Demand and Subscription model, it also supports standalone vCloud Director. Now, it can be leveraged independent of any OS or any linux distribution. In this blog, it will be demonstrated that how to take advantage of the packaged vCA CLI Docker image to quickly get going with vCA CLI regardless of what client OS Distribution you’re using as long as you have access to Docker engine.
1. Docker can be installed as per the below documentation for variety of OS;
https://docs.docker.com/installation/
2. After the installation of the docker engine. Just pull the vca-cli docker image from docker hub;
docker pull vkohli/vca-cli
3. Run the docker container and attach to its bash shell;
https://docs.docker.com/installation/
2. After the installation of the docker engine. Just pull the vca-cli docker image from docker hub;
docker pull vkohli/vca-cli
3. Run the docker container and attach to its bash shell;
$docker run –i –t vkohli/vca-cli /bin/bash
root@aba17a142b96:/# vca
Usage: vca [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
VMware vCloud Air Command Line Interface.
Options:
-p, --profile <profile> Profile id
-v, --version Show version
-d, --debug Enable debug
-j, --json Results as JSON object
-x, --xml Results as XML document
-i, --insecure Perform insecure SSL connections
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
root@aba17a142b96:/# vca
Usage: vca [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
VMware vCloud Air Command Line Interface.
Options:
-p, --profile <profile> Profile id
-v, --version Show version
-d, --debug Enable debug
-j, --json Results as JSON object
-x, --xml Results as XML document
-i, --insecure Perform insecure SSL connections
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
blueprint Operations with Blueprints
catalog Operations with Catalogs
deployment Operations with Deployments
dhcp Operations with Edge Gateway DHCP Service
disk Operations with Independent Disks
events Operations with Events
example vCloud Air CLI Examples
firewall Operations with Edge Gateway Firewall Rules
gateway Operations with Edge Gateway
instance Operations with Instances
login Login to a vCloud service
logout Logout from a vCloud service
nat Operations with Edge Gateway NAT Rules
network Operations with Networks
org Operations with Organizations
plan Operations with Plans
status Show current status
vapp Operations with vApps
vdc Operations with Virtual Data Centers (vdc)
vm Operations with Virtual Machines (VMs)
vpn Operations with Edge Gateway VPN
The advantage of having the vca-cli docker image is to;
1. Run it independent of the underlying OS,the only requirement is docker engine.
2. All the dependencies and installation process of vCA-CLI is taken care in the packaged docker image.
3. Multi-user support: Currently vCA-CLI does not support multi-user login and usage from the same host machine. But using docker image one host machine can be used to support mutli-user requirement as multiple docker containers (independent instance of vca-cli) can be spawned for each user on the same host as shown in the figures above.
Start using the vca-cli, please visit the official github page for more details;
https://github.com/vmware/vca-cli
catalog Operations with Catalogs
deployment Operations with Deployments
dhcp Operations with Edge Gateway DHCP Service
disk Operations with Independent Disks
events Operations with Events
example vCloud Air CLI Examples
firewall Operations with Edge Gateway Firewall Rules
gateway Operations with Edge Gateway
instance Operations with Instances
login Login to a vCloud service
logout Logout from a vCloud service
nat Operations with Edge Gateway NAT Rules
network Operations with Networks
org Operations with Organizations
plan Operations with Plans
status Show current status
vapp Operations with vApps
vdc Operations with Virtual Data Centers (vdc)
vm Operations with Virtual Machines (VMs)
vpn Operations with Edge Gateway VPN
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| vCA-CLI normal functionality on single Host |
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| vCA-CLI functionality with Docker Container |
The advantage of having the vca-cli docker image is to;
1. Run it independent of the underlying OS,the only requirement is docker engine.
2. All the dependencies and installation process of vCA-CLI is taken care in the packaged docker image.
3. Multi-user support: Currently vCA-CLI does not support multi-user login and usage from the same host machine. But using docker image one host machine can be used to support mutli-user requirement as multiple docker containers (independent instance of vca-cli) can be spawned for each user on the same host as shown in the figures above.
Start using the vca-cli, please visit the official github page for more details;
https://github.com/vmware/vca-cli
