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Share your Orchestrator workflow through FlowGrab

Duncan Epping · Apr 7, 2015 ·

A while back when attending/presenting at some VMUGs I stumbled in to this company called FlowGrab. They are fairly new and pitched their solution to me and I must say it sounded very interesting. I guess if you want to dumb it down you can label it as a code repository solution for vRO/vCO. FlowGrab describes itself as follows:

FlowGrab provides a versionable code repository and collaboration functionalities for workflow developers and consumers and allows working in your everyday environment by using FlowGrab Plug-in for vRO which connects your vRO directly to FlowGrab.

I think what is important here is the “collaboration” piece. FlowGrab is very focused on creating a community. We’ve had that community in the PowerCLI space for a long time, and people have been sharing scripts forever, and now that can also easily be done through a central location for vRO. The great thing about FlowGrab is that they have a community edition which can be used for free, it has less functionality than the paid version but I must say that the available functionality should be sufficient for most!

If you have an interest in vRO and like to share your work than now may be the right time. FlowGrab just announced a great contest where you can win an Apple Watch simply by uploading new workflows to their repository.

There’s a great Brownbag session on FlowGrab which I recommend watching if you are interested and want to figure out how this all works and how you can contribute:

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  1. Martin Gavanda says

    7 April, 2015 at 16:25

    From the first view it seems interesting. On the second view there is lack of integrations right now (no busines apps, OS, networking etc.) Once the catalog of the flows grows it might be interesting. Third point is that If I want to orchestrate something on premise I need the Enterprise licence (not all programs tipicaly provides REST API so you need to use good old scripts).

    Disclaimer: I am happy user of HP Operation Orchestration which is awsome except of the price…

  2. Jon says

    8 April, 2015 at 03:15

    Thank you very much Duncan. FlowGrab is genius.

  3. Jerry says

    8 April, 2015 at 19:22

    This is great, thanks for sharing

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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