Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 4 Creating a Tenant

In this series we will see how to automate the creation of a tenant in vCAC using vCO. There are multiple tasks to provision a tenant in vCAC, so even though it is an automation product itself, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t look at automating parts of it too.

In part 4 we look at the first part of creating a Tenant in vCAC.

1) Create the parent workflow

After creating a workflow for the AD requirements in parts 1 and 2, the rest of the work is done via built-in workflows of the vCAC plugin. So we will create a parent workflow to organise the rest into.

First of all drop in the AD workflow and add an input parameter

 

2) Add the ‘Create a tenant’ workflow

Drag the Create a tenant workflow from the vCloud Automation Center section of the workflow library

Set the In parameters

We can set the Value here since we are only working with one vCAC server

Output the Tenant object from this workflow, since we will need it in parts 5 and 6.

 

3) Test the workflow

As a test, we can run what we have so far which will create the AD requirements and an empty tenant in vCAC.

Looking good so far

In parts 5 and 6 we will complete the Identity Stores and Administrators configuration

 

Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 1 AD SSL Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 2 AD Users, Groups and OUs Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 3 Install the vCAC plugin for vCO Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 4 Creating a Tenant Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 5 Creating an Identity Store Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 6 Adding Administrators Automating vCAC Tenant Creation with vCO: Part 7 Creating a vCAC Catalog Item