topic Re: vro 8 cannot write to local file in VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Discussions

vro 8 cannot write to local file

carl1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:11:00 GMT

I have a situation where I need to use an SSH Key (instead of user/password) to login to a server. SSHSession only takes a file as input for this. Worked fine in vRO 7 but with vRA 8, the disk is transient (container). So I thought I would take a Resource Element, write it to a temp file and then hand that in to ssh. But I can't seem to create a local file. I tried opening a file in System.getTempDirectory() but no luck. I tried /tmp and /var/tmp, still no joy. Any suggestions?

Thanks everyone,

Carl L.

Re: vro 8 cannot write to local file

daphnissov — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:25:16 GMT

As long as vRO is defined by and run under Kubernetes with no writable volume, this probably won't be possible. What you may need to do is access a remote file share for this purpose.

Re: vro 8 cannot write to local file

carl1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:37:15 GMT

Never mind. System.getTempDirectory() worked 2nd time around. Go figure!

Since it is only a temp file, writing locally is good; as long as you don't expect it to be there in the next element (container/node switch over may delete it).

Carl L.