Create a Cloud Zone

To create a cloud zone, you first make GET request to obtain a region ID with a cloud account ID as input. Then you make a POST request with the region ID.

Prerequisites

• Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for the Automation Assembler Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
• Verify that you have the cloud account ID for the cloud account you added. See Add an Amazon Web Services Cloud Account.

Procedure

1. Assign the cloud account ID variable.

   cloud_account_id='<your_cloud_account_id>'

2. Look up the IDs for the region named us-east-1 that is associated with the cloud account.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."

3. To obtain a region ID, examine the response.
4. Assign the region ID variable.

   region_id='<your_region_id>'

5. Create a cloud zone.

   curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -d '{ "name": "Demo-zone-1", "description": "This zone is for Demo", "regionId": "'$region_id'", "placementPolicy": "DEFAULT" }' "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

6. To obtain a cloud zone ID, examine the response.
7. Assign the zone ID variable.

   zone_id='<your_cloud_zone_id>'

8. List all cloud zones.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

9. (Optional) List the cloud zone with your cloud zone ID.

   curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/zones/$zone_id?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

10. Examine the output to verify that the cloud zone you created is listed.

Example: Create a Cloud Zone

Assign variables, specify a cloud account and look up IDs for the region named us-east-1 associated with the cloud account.

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='2021-07-15'
$ cloud_account_id='c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-f8e705d89b2569e1aac66c6d00bf4fc7ef4b1c44100f0e944af31eb8ba3d2a5a-f4226a20b65c4675574bc5fbff6c0'
$ curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" "$url/iaas/api/regions/?apiVersion=$api_version&"'$filter'"=externalRegionId%20eq%20'us-east-1'%20and%20cloudAccountId%20eq%20'"$cloud_account_id"'"  | jq "."

A snippet of the response from your request shows your cloud account ID with a region ID.

...
"externalRegionId": "us-east-1",
"cloudAccountId": "c8c3c9bfdb449475-7f703c5265a63d87-f8e705d89b2569e1aac66c6d00bf4fc7ef4b1c44100f0e944af31eb8ba3d2a5a-f4226a20b65c4675574bc5fbff6c0",
"id": "4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd858e8",
"updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...

Specify a region ID and create a cloud zone.

$ region_id='4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd858e8'
$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -d '{ "name": "Demo-zone-1", "description": "This zone is for Demo", "regionId": "'$region_id'", "placementPolicy": "DEFAULT" }' "$url/iaas/api/zones?apiVersion=$api_version"  | jq "."

A snippet of the response from your request shows the zone ID.

...      
"name": "Aws / us-east-1",
"id": "4965d34c3bfe0275574bc5fd8782a",
"updatedAt": "2022-04-02",
...