Container from Catalog

In this article I want describe how to prepare environment for deploy container by one click from catalog

First step is to create VM on which we start docker engine. I’ve decided to use PhotonOS which is delivered by VMware in ova file. So I’ve deploy VM and change it to template. After Data collection we are able to use it in design

To prepare this VM for work with docker I decided to customize it from vRO. In this case I’ve put custom property

After this specific setup, we are able to use Event Subscription which run our vRO workflow

My workflow is a very simple and has only two element

In Get-VM-From-Text, I have Scriptable task to collect payload and convert VM name to VM object

The second Scriptable Task is setup docker on that specific VM

var host = vmName.sdkConnection;

var guestOperationsManager = host.guestOperationsManager;
var guestAuth = new VcNamePasswordAuthentication();
guestAuth.username = "root";
guestAuth.password = "QSCcsq123!@#";

var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/systemctl";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = "stop docker";
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);

var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/mkdir";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = "/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/";
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);

var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/echo";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = '"\[Service\]" >> /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/docker.conf';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);
var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/echo";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = '"ExecStart=" >> /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/docker.conf';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);
var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/echo";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = '"ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 -H unix://var/run/docker.sock" >> /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/docker.conf';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);

var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/systemctl";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = 'stop iptables';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);
var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/systemctl";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = 'disable iptables';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);

var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/systemctl";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = 'deamon-reload';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);
var guestProgramSpec = new VcGuestProgramSpec();
guestProgramSpec.programPath = "/bin/systemctl";
guestProgramSpec.arguments = 'restart docker';
var processManager = guestOperationsManager.processManager;
result = processManager.startProgramInGuest(vmName , guestAuth , guestProgramSpec);

So now we are able to deploy our Photon