What this book covers

Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator , shows you how to install, configure, and access Orchestrator.

Chapter 2, Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration , dives into more specialized tasks such as tuning the Orchestrator appliance, changing certificates and dealing with logs.

Chapter 3, Distributed Design,  focuses on Clusters, distributed Orchestrator setups and loadbalancing.

Chapter 4, Programming Skills , contains all the little secrets that you need to know to make Orchestrator programming easier.

Chapter 5, Visual Programming , introduces and dives into the visual programming of Orchestrator.

Chapter 6, Advanced Programming , dives into more advanced operations such complex Java objects, JSON and other items that will add value to your workflows.

Chapter 7, Interacting with Orchestrator , focuses on how to interact with Orchestrator. We will use PowerShell, REST, and PHP to interact with workflows.

Chapter 8, Better Workflows and Optimized Working , dives into resources, configurations, packages, and more for optimizing your workflows.

Chapter 9, Essential Plugins , deals with the most plugins used, such as e-mail, files, SSH and REST.

Chapter 10, Built-in Plugins , dives into all the other plugins that are preinstalled in Orchestrator.

Chapter 11, Additional Plugins , takes a look at NSX, Horizon, Replication, SRM and vROPS plugins.

Chapter 12, Working with vSphere , is a full chapter dedicated to all things vSphere (vCenter).

Chapter 13, Working with vRealize Automation , dives into how to use Orchestrator in vRealize Automation.