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title: "Leveraging \"Anything as a Service\" using vRealize Automation"
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Recently, I came into a quite interesting technical article at the VMware blog, which is related to utilization of vRealize Automation to make decision-driven machine provisioning through leveraging "Anuthing-as-a-Service", (XaaS).

Quoting from the article,

> <span style="color: #404040">Leveraging XaaS to deploy Operating System blueprints exposes some very powerful possibilities. We can leverage code to help dictate the characteristics of a provisioned resource. Decision Driven Provisioning leverages simple “if / then” statements to apply specific properties to augment our machine builds.</span>

<span style="color: #404040">The author describes in detail a </span>workflow to bootstrap a XaaS request for machine provisioning. This workflow is used to simplify the following tasks:

- Determine the specific Catalog Item tied to a Business Group
- Gets the Provisioning Request
- Gets the Provisioning Request JSON Data
- Requests a Catalog Item using the modified JSON data.

  


Read more details, here, > Macro (ui-button)



Looking forward to test in my lab, and then to our Production environment.