SUMMARY.md

Summary

• Introduction
• The Automation Datastore
  • Domains and Namespaces
  • Classes, Schemas, Instances & Relationships
  • Methods and Relationships
• Writing & Running Our Own Scripts
  • Creating the Class
  • Hello, World!
  • Exit Status
• Using Schema Object Variables
• Some Background Theory
  • A Little Rails Knowledge
  • The MiqAeService* Model
  • Working with Automation Objects
  • Distributed Ruby
• A More Advanced Example
• $evm and the Workspace
• Using Tags from Automate
• Example - Enforcing Anti-Affinity Rules
• Investigative Debugging
• Ways of Entering Automation
• Event Processing
  • The Event Switchboard
  • Catching and Handling External Events
  • Creating and Processing Internal Events
  • Event-Driven Automation
  • Extending Event Handling
• State Machines
• More Advanced Schema Concepts
• Automation Operations
  • Requests and Tasks
  • Distributed Automation Processing
• Provisioning a VM
  • The Provisioning Profile
    • Profile Processing - Deep Dive
  • Approval
  • Quota Management
  • The Options Hash
  • The VM Provisioning State Machine
  • Example - Customising VM Provisioning
  • VM Naming During Provisioning
  • VM Placement During Provisioning
  • The VM Provisioning Dialog
  • VM Provisioning Objects
  • Creating Provisioning Requests Programmatically
• Integrating with Satellite 6 During Provisioning
• Working with Services
  • Service Dialogs
  • The Service Provisioning State Machine
  • Catalog{Item,Bundle}Initialization
  • Approval and Quota
  • Example - Creating a Service Catalog Item
  • Example - Creating a Service Catalog Bundle
  • Service Objects
  • Log Analysis During Service Provisioning
  • Custom State Machines
  • Service Hierarchies
  • Service Reconfiguration
  • Service Tips and Tricks
• Retirement
• Argument Passing and Handling
• Calling Automation from the RESTful API
• Automation Request Approval
• Integration - Calling External Services
• Miscellaneous Tips