PowervRO aims to simplify interacting with vRO from the command line by providing a library of functions to help you do things like execute workflows and actions or import resources.

Release 1.0.0 includes 59 functions covering a number of services exposed by the API. Currently we support:

• Actions-service
• Category-service
• Packages-service
• Plugin-service
• Resource-service
• Service-descriptor-service
• User-service
• Workflow-run-service
• Workflow-service

If you would like to see support for something that isn’t listed above let us know over at Github or fork us and submit your own functions.

One of the current limitations with vRA7 is that once a local user has been created it can’t be modified.

Since v1.20 PowervRA has provided ability to interact with local user principals by using the following set of functions:

• Get-vRAUserPrincipal
• Set-vRAUserPrincipal
• New-vRAUserPrincipal
• Remove-vRAUserPrincipal

While working in a vRA 7.0.1 environment recently I came across an interesting issue where some core services were not behaving the way they should. The vco service seemed to be unregistered and shell-ui-app along with advanced-designer-service were showing as UNAVAILABLE.

So recently I read about Let’s Encrypt. It’s a pretty awesome service that provides free short-lived SSL certificates.

I thought it would be cool to share the steps I took to get my WordPress installation running Ubuntu/Apache set up with fresh SSL certificates and automated renewal.

Requesting a vRA catalog item is simple with PowervRA and can be achieved with the Request-vRAConsumerCatalogItem cmdlet. Here are a few examples using an imaginary catalog item called centos.