Introduction

This chapter centers on working with different plugins. We will explore how each plugin can help with achieving better automation and integration. For that, we need to have a closer look at the API itself. What we mean by API here is the internal workings of Orchestrator.

Tip

This chapter enables you to integrate all the aforementioned plugins into vRealize Automation. See the Integrating Orchestrator workflows in vRA recipe in Chapter 7, Working with VMware Infrastructure.

We discussed how to install plugins in the Plugin basics recipe in Chapter 2, Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration; however, the plugins we will discuss here are the basic ones that are shipped with Orchestrator (Version 5.5.x or higher). Each plugin adds its own variables, classes, objects, and so on to Orchestrator. We will discuss the API and how to search and work with it in the Working with the API recipe in this chapter.

How this chapter works

Like Chapter 3, Visual Programming, this chapter's recipes will...