VDC Aria Direct CLI

A Python-based command-line interface for natively managing and interacting with VMware Aria / vRealize Automation (vRA) API endpoints via direct REST integration.

This CLI abstracts away complex day-2 action lookups and handles dynamic payload patching efficiently. It implements robust built-in authorization flows, smart sanity checks, and custom blueprint inspections to overcome typical user-access (403 Forbidden) restrictions.

Authentication & Configuration

You can pass your credentials interactively in the terminal context, or you can streamline your session execution securely via systemic Environment Variables:

• VDC_BASE_URL: Base URI for your instance (Defaults to: https://portal.vdc.cloud.sky)
• VDC_USERNAME: Standard username for OAuth validation
• VDC_PASSWORD: Raw user password string for automation
• VDC_REFRESH_TOKEN: Skips standard login and natively utilizes Token refresh
• REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE: Local Certificate Authority paths if strict SSL isn't bypassed

CLI Usage

Global Flags:

• --base-url: Portal URL override.
• --user: Username override string.
• --ca-cert: Certificate CA bundle map.
• --insecure: Dynamically disables strict SSL verification completely.
• --json: Renders generic string outputs (like lists) as fully compliant JSON objects.

List Deployments

Fetches and structures all active deployments associated with your Role inside the selected Project namespace.

python vdc.py --insecure list-deployments --project "SevOne"

Show Capacity Attributes

Aria blocks limit inspections (403) from standard users traversing /iaas/ or /policies branches natively. This command circumvents that limitation by identifying recent evaluation payloads off recent blueprints to deduce your "Project Capacity" remaining allocations neatly.

python vdc.py --insecure show-capacity --project "SevOne"

Show Actions

Resolves all available and specifically authorized "Day-2" execution actions attached to the target Cloud.vSphere.Machine instance alongside their system IDs mapping.

python vdc.py --insecure show-actions --project "SevOne" --vm "sovpastp01"

Update Description

Re-writes documentation descriptions natively over the deployment API without mandating rigid provisioning approvals.

python vdc.py --insecure update-description --project "SevOne" --vm "sovpastp01" --description "Capacity scaled for stress-test."

Resize VM

Submits dynamic Resource Provisioning requests to dynamically expand or configure CPU & Memory allocations.

• Contains a core Capacity Integrity Check feature mathematically verifying your requested deltas against your Project's active Capacity Snapshot to prevent 10006 backend errors.
• Non-targeted properties seamlessly fallback to preserving their current allocations.

# Increase CPU cores independently 
python vdc.py --insecure resize-vm --project "SevOne" --vm "sovpastp01" --cpu 10

# Increase Memory (In MBs) independently
python vdc.py --insecure resize-vm --project "SevOne" --vm "sovpastp01" --memory 122880