Get Deployment Resource IDs

To get IDs of the resources in your deployment, you use the Deployment APIs to make a GET request.

To perform operations on the load balancer or virtual machine in your deployment, you need the IDs of those resources.

Prerequisites

• Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for the Automation Service Broker Deployment service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
• Verify that you have the ID of the deployment you want to reconfigure. See Deploy a Cloud Template with Contents Inline.

Procedure

1. Assign your deployment ID variable.

   deployment_id='<your_deployment_id>'

2. List the resources in your deployment.

   curl -X GET \
     $url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id/resources?apiVersion=$api_version \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

3. Examine the response.
   • Find the resource named Provider_LoadBalancer_1 and copy the value to assign to the load balancer ID.
   • Find the resource named cloud-vm and copy the value to assign to the virtual machine ID.
4. Assign variables for the resources.

   load_balancer_id='<your_load_balancer_id>'
   virtual_machine_id='<your_virtual_machine_id>'
   

Example: Get Deployment Resource IDs

Get the resource IDs for your deployment with ID 5551a299-8b67-45e3-909e-a638d11b0d9f.

Assign variables.

Note: If your organization uses an API service that is hosted outside of the United States, your URL variable must include a country abbreviation. See Regional Endpoints for VMware Aria Automation APIs.

$ url='https://api.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com'
$ api_version='2020-08-25'
$ deployment_id='5551a299-8b67-45e3-909e-a638d11b0d9f'

List the resources in your deployment.

$ curl -X GET \
  $url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id/resources?apiVersion=$api_version \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the ID for the resource Provider_LoadBalancer_1 and the ID for the resource cloud-vm.

...
{
      "id": "d5b4569d-2234-4fc4-a594-45e6b0251588",
      "name": "Provider_LoadBalancer_1",
      "type": "Cloud.LoadBalancer",
...
{
      "id": "42f49781-1490-4a08-ae21-8baf383a72ac",
      "name": "cloud-vm",
      "type": "Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance",
...

Assign the load balancer ID and virtual machine ID variables.

$ load_balancer_id='d5b4569d-2234-4fc4-a594-45e6b0251588'
$ virtual_machine_id='42f49781-1490-4a08-ae21-8baf383a72ac'

What to do next

Use the load balancer ID to reconfigure your load balancer. Use the virtual machine ID to add a disk to the VM and power off the VM.