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VMware appliance terminal

vRO

A terminal-style VMware Orchestrator lane for private workflow composition, cloud callbacks, and VCF commits.

vRO appliance
on-prem control plane
vRO terminal

VMware Orchestrator appliance

Use this lane to inspect the real vRO appliance surface: health, plugins, packages, categories, workflows, actions, workflow details, and executions. The terminal is already wired to /api/onprem/vro and supports both shared lab vro ... aliases and raw vro get/post/delete passthrough calls into the appliance API.

VMware vRO
Appliance surface + route hook
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VMware Orchestrator appliance surface

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vRO live workflow

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8 phases
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phase 011. Bring the orchestrator appliance onlinelive

Confirm the VMware Orchestrator appliance is healthy, trusted, and reachable before any VCFA or workflow binding begins.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Verify the appliance control plane, API listeners, and service health before the lane is allowed to wire anything.
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    lab vro appliance status
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/about
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/health
    raw step 03
    vracli service status
  2. 02
    Record the VCFA endpoint that the appliance should trust for inventory, auth, and workflow callbacks.
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    lab vro trust vcfa
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vcfa-endpoint>/api/health
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/trust --data '{"target":"vcfa"}'
  3. 03
    Check certificate trust and API reachability so later package imports do not fail on basic appliance wiring.
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    lab vro validate endpoint
    raw step 01
    openssl s_client -connect <vro-appliance>:443 -servername <vro-appliance>
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/system/summary
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phase 022. Sync VCFA inventory and scopelive

Bind the orchestrator to the workload-domain inventory so workflows can discover clusters, domains, and target systems without hard-coding them.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Pull the current VCFA inventory into the appliance so the workflow library can resolve real targets instead of stale placeholders.
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    lab vro inventory sync
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/inventory/sync
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/inventory
  2. 02
    Show the cached inventory objects the appliance can see so operators can confirm the scope before wiring actions.
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    lab vro list inventory
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/inventory?scope=all
  3. 03
    Attach the active VCFA domain and workload context so package actions resolve against the right fabric.
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    lab vro bind vcfa domain
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/vcfa-binding --data '{"domain":"lab-domain"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/vcfa-binding
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phase 033. Bind credentials and policylive

Connect the orchestrator to its runtime secret source and policy gates so actions can be approved, limited, and audited.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Confirm the credential vault path is reachable before the appliance is allowed to execute or dispatch any workflow.
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    lab vro verify vault
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/vault/status
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/vault/secrets?scope=lab
  2. 02
    Map the orchestrator to a low-privilege service account for VCFA, vCenter, and workflow callback operations.
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    lab vro bind service account
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/service-account --data '{"name":"lab-vro-operator"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/service-account
  3. 03
    Attach approval and guardrail policies that decide which workflows can run automatically and which need an operator check.
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    lab vro policy map
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/policy/map --data '{"policy":"lab-workflow-guardrails"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/policy/map
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phase 044. Import the workflow packagelive

Load the orchestrator package bundle that contains the reusable runbooks, actions, presentations, and approval steps.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Upload the packaged vRO content library so the appliance can expose the lab workflows as real runbook assets.
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    lab vro import package
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/packages/import --form file=@lab-vro-package.zip
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/packages
  2. 02
    Check that the imported package has the expected workflow count, actions, and presentations before it becomes live.
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    lab vro validate package
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/packages/lab-vro-package/validate
  3. 03
    Show the workflow catalog the appliance can now run so the operator can review the installed runbooks.
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    lab vro list workflows
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/workflows
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phase 055. Wire event subscriptions and triggerslive

Connect VCFA and the lab systems to the orchestrator's triggers so a request can enter the flow from events instead of manual clicks only.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Register the appliance for lab request, approval, and completion events so the workflow can react to incoming state changes.
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    lab vro subscribe events
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/subscriptions --data '{"topic":"lab.request.created"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/subscriptions
  2. 02
    Bind incoming topics to the right workflow entry points so the appliance can fan out the correct branch for each event.
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    lab vro map topics
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/topics/map --data '{"source":"lab.request.created","workflow":"orchestrate-change"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/topics/map
  3. 03
    Send a harmless trigger through the appliance to prove the event route, presentation, and runbook entry points work.
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    lab vro dry-run trigger
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/triggers/dry-run --data '{"workflow":"orchestrate-change"}'
    raw step 02
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/triggers/dry-run
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phase 066. Execute the fanout workflowlive

Run the orchestrator flow that drives VCFA, service endpoints, and the lab approval path while keeping every step visible.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Launch the active vRO runbook and fan out the VCFA, approval, and callback branches as a single tracked run.
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    lab vro execute workflow
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/workflows/orchestrate-change/execute --data '{"requestId":"<workflow-id>"}'
  2. 02
    Poll the workflow execution until the appliance records a terminal state, then surface the current step and branch state.
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    lab vro wait run
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/runs/<run-id>
  3. 03
    Review the live execution graph, step outputs, and branch transitions for the active orchestrator run.
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    lab vro show run
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/runs/<run-id>/graph
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phase 077. Replay, audit, and export logslive

Keep the runbook teachable by exposing the audit trail, a replay path for failure analysis, and an exportable log bundle.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Read the appliance audit log so operators can prove which workflow, credential, and branch executed at each junction.
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    lab vro audit trail
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/audit?limit=20
  2. 02
    Re-run the last failed step against the same inputs so the operator can confirm whether the issue is persistent or transient.
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    lab vro replay failure
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/runs/<run-id>/replay
  3. 03
    Export the workflow log bundle for the current run so it can be attached to the lab ledger or reviewed offline.
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    lab vro export logs
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/runs/<run-id>/logs > vro-run.log
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phase 088. Teardown and resetlive

Unwind bindings, remove imported packages, and return the appliance to a clean state so the lane stays cheap and repeatable.

3 cmds
  1. 01
    Remove run-scoped triggers, temporary artifacts, and cached workflow state before the appliance chapter ends.
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    lab vro cleanup
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/cleanup --data '{"scope":"current-run"}'
  2. 02
    Drop the VCFA and service-account bindings so the appliance no longer has active lab trust relationships.
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    lab vro revoke bindings
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X POST https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/config/revoke --data '{"scope":"vcfa"}'
  3. 03
    Delete the imported workflow package once the chapter is complete so the appliance can be reset for the next run.
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    lab vro remove package
    raw step 01
    curl -fsS -X DELETE https://<vro-appliance>/vco/api/packages/lab-vro-package
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