vRealize Automation REST APIs

So far, we talked about REST APIs and how we can work with them in PowerShell. In this section, we are going to talk about vRealize Automation (vRA) REST APIs as well as how and where we can access them.

There are two documents that are related to vRA REST APIs and they will be very helpful to us: Programming Guide and REST API Reference. They can be found at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html. From the link, you can either download the PDF version or explore them in the browser. While the second document provides the reference to all the available REST API in vRA, the first one provides a programming guide to using these REST APIs to manage the vRA environment. While exploring the RESTful services for vRA, we can see that the vRA REST API provides consumer-level, administrator-level, and provider-level access to the service catalog of the same services that are available from the user interface. Whenever a service request is done with a resource...