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Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Event-Driven Automation for VMware Partners

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Robert Guske - VEBA takes automation to the next level by using event-driven integrations and interactions as the foundation. In this session, together with a VMware partner, we will demonstrate how our partners and communities can unlock the hidden potential of software-defined datacenter events to build event-driven automation and integrations. Event-driven systems open up new possibilities and massively increase time-to-value.

Event-Driven Automation with Project Harbor and Knative

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Robert Guske - The open-source container registry Harbor supports the configuration of webhook endpoints. Harbor notifies the webhook endpoint of certain events that occur in a project. However, the event sent is not delivered as a CloudEvent. By leveraging the power of VEBA the non-CloudEvent can be send to a webhook function to get transformed in a CloudEvent. By transforming the event, other functions can be subscribed to the new event to ultimately get triggered.

Achieve Event-Driven Automation with VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)

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Brandon Lee - Organizations worldwide are in the middle of a paradigm shift in provisioning, managing, monitoring, and configuring their infrastructure. The cloud revolution has prompted a change in the way businesses think about infrastructure ...

vSphere Event-Driven Automation using Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)

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William Lam - One of the core components of TAP is the Cloud Native Runtime (CNR), which is VMware's commercial offering of the popular open source project Knative. The VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) project also makes use of Knative as our backend to provide customers with an event-driven automation solution.

VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial - How to create an email notification

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virtualizationhowto.com - Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEBA and you are looking to take your vCenter notifications and automation to the next level, VEBA is the solution that allows VI admins to push the envelope of what is possible in the enterprise datacenter running vSphere. We will look at a VEBA tutorial - "How to create an email notification".

vSphere Event-Driven Automation using VMware Event Router on VMware Cloud on AWS with Knative or AWS EventBridge

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William Lam - I wanted to spend some time covering the native Kubernetes deployment model, as it there are actually a couple of options and most recently, this came up in a customer discussions as they were interested in forwarding vSphere Events from VEBA to AWS EventBridge.

How to modernize your vSphere Alarm actions using the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)?

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William Lam - The benefits of VEBA can extend beyond just vSphere Events and can also be used with both new and existing vSphere Alarms. In fact, vSphere Alarms is just another a type of vSphere Event, which then makes it super easy to work with if you are already familiar with VEBA.

VMware Event Broker Appliance – Part VIII – Building a New PowerCLI Function – Preparation

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Patrick Kremer - A Knative PowerCLI function template was committed to the repo in February 2022, and was released in 0.7.2. This template makes it easy to build a brand new function complete with a full set of documentation. This post walks through the process of using the template to build the kn-pcli-pg-check function, which was published in March 2022.

VRA Cloud/8 to install the VMware Event Broker Appliance

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Ankush - Automating the deployment of VEBA using Aria Cloud Automation.

Custom webhook function to publish events into VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)

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William Lam - In my previous article, I demonstrated how you can leverage the upcoming v0.7 release of the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) to publish and consume custom events to easily extend your event-driven automation to other event sources. Once you have setup a wildcard DNS for your VEBA deployment, you can refer to this sample PowerShell function which demonstrates how to create and test a custom webhook function.

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