AWS Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator missing Region eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)

[PowerPaul201110]

Hi all,

I am trying to use the AWS Plugin 1.0.0.2 for vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 (listed as AWS 1.0.0.5102111 on Orchestrator Configuration web front-end).

However the region eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) is missing.

I tried the following script to get all regions:

var regions = AWSRegionManager.findAllRegions();
for (var i = 0; i < regions.length; i ++) {
  System.log(regions[i].name + " - " + regions[i].description + " - " + regions[i].displayName )
}

Output:

[2017-08-04 10:55:17.412] [I] sa-east-1 - South America (Sao Paulo) Region - sa-east-1 [South America (Sao Paulo) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.412] [I] ap-northeast-1 - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region - ap-northeast-1 [Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.412] [I] eu-west-1 - EU (Ireland) Region - eu-west-1 [EU (Ireland) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.412] [I] us-gov-west-1 - AWS GovCloud (US) - us-gov-west-1 [AWS GovCloud (US)]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] us-east-1 - US East (Northern Virginia) Region - us-east-1 [US East (Northern Virginia) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] cn-north-1 - China (Beijing) - cn-north-1 [China (Beijing)]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] us-west-1 - US West (Northern California) Region - us-west-1 [US West (Northern California) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] us-west-2 - US West (Oregon) Region - us-west-2 [US West (Oregon) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] ap-southeast-2 - Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region - ap-southeast-2 [Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region]
[2017-08-04 10:55:17.413] [I] ap-southeast-1 - Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region - ap-southeast-1 [Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region]

Is there a way to add new regions to the AWSRegionManager?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[daphnissov]

I think you'll get a quicker response if you post this in the vRO forum.

[gigawatts]

I have wondered about this myself.

I decompiled the java applet a few months ago, and the list of regions appears to be hard-coded. This seems like a very poor way to handle such a list.

[iiliev]

Hi,

AFAIK, this region uses different authentication mechanism - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=582707

So you will need a new plug-in build supporting it. However, I'm not aware of any plans for future development/enhancement of AWS plug-in. You may want to contact your VMware representative/point of contact, to get an official statement about the plug-in.

One possible alternative could be to use the generic HTTP-REST plug-in and try to communicate with AWS through its REST API.

[gigawatts]

That is problematic, because then vRA won't keep track of deployments anymore.

[gkostova]

Hi,

There is no plan for new release of the plug-in till the end of the year at least. It seems that you have vRA in your environment. What is your use case with AWS and is it possible for you to perform this use case through vRA instead of using vRO plug-in for AWS? Is there any missing functionality in vRA so that you cannot execute your use case through there?

Regards,

Galina

[PowerPaul201110]

Hi,

I would be interested in adding User Data during request of an AWS instance through vRA:

vRA 6.2/7.x AWS EC2 User Data

Best Regards,

Paul