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BScott66
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Chef/Knife - Coding for deployment of Blueprint via VRA\API

Hello,

We have a customer whos DevOps team is working on leveraging Chef and Knife in the deployment of VM's leveraging the vRA API.

The challenge they are currently facing is that the blueprints we have established have standard drop downs for normalized data and what we are being told is that Chef/Knife does not have the capabilities to interact with the GUI which is required when this situation exists.

Can someone verify if this is an accurate statement. To me this seems to be a bit reaching as this would severely limit the ability to leverage developed functionality in the GUI from the API. Especially since this is standard functionality used in the GUI (eg: Drop Downs).

Thanks

Bill

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GrantOrchardVMw
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If you're doing this via API then the drop downs are just values to submit against a custom property as part of the request body.

I can't see this being a problem.

Grant

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