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Accelario Virtualization can be integrated natively into GitHub workflow

It is done by adding a section to blank.yml file of any GitHub repository. Inside the section, a script makes API calls to the Accelario Virtualization engine to perform any needed operation.

The configuration to create a VDB as part of GitHub workflow - should be added blank.yml, the important part is in section acellario-create-vdb, all the rest can be configured as you wish:

name: CI

# Controls when the workflow will run
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the "main" branch
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      # Runs a set of commands using the runners shell
      - name: acellario-create-vdb
        run: |
          TOKEN=$(curl -X POST "http://${{ vars.VIRTUALIZATION_IP }}:8080/api/v1/login" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"username\": \"${{ secrets.VIRTUALIZATION_LOGIN }}\", \"password\": \"${{ secrets.VIRTUALIZATION_PASSWORD }}\"}" |awk -F ":" '{print $2}' |  cut -d '}' -f 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)
          VDB_ID=$(curl -X POST "http://${{ vars.VIRTUALIZATION_IP }}:8080/api/v1/vdb" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"startImmidiately\":true,\"createVolumeRequest\":{\"name\":\"QA_VDB\",\"description\":\"\",\"type\":\"CLONE\",\"parentId\":\"${{ vars.SNAPSHOT_ID }}\",\"snapshotInterval\":0,\"refreshSchedule\":{\"count\":0,\"interval\":\"MINUTES\",\"startFromDate\":\"2021-12-22 15:16\",\"retentionCount\":14}},\"startVdbRequest\":{\"name\":\"QA_VDB\",\"description\":\"\",\"dstDbHomeId\":\"${{ vars.TGT_HOME_ID }}\",\"dbSid\":\"QA\",\"advancedParams\":[{\"name\":\"PostSqlScriptPath\",\"value\":\"\"},{\"name\":\"PreOsScriptPath\",\"value\":\"\"},{\"name\":\"PostOsScriptPath\",\"value\":\"\"}],\"racInstances\":[],\"dbPort\":5560}}" |tee /dev/stderr |awk -F ":" '{print $2}' |  cut -d '}' -f 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)
          sleep 5
          vdb_check=$(curl -X GET "http://${{ vars.VIRTUALIZATION_IP }}:8080/api/v1/vdb"  -H "accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r --arg VDB_ID "$VDB_ID" '.[] | select(.id == $VDB_ID) | .status')
          while [[ "$vdb_check" == "IN_PROGRESS"  ]];
          do
          echo "VDB creation IN_PROGRESS. Sleeping 30 second until next check" && sleep 30;
          export vdb_check=$(curl -X GET "http://${{ vars.VIRTUALIZATION_IP }}:8080/api/v1/vdb"  -H "accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r --arg VDB_ID "$VDB_ID" '.[] | select(.id == $VDB_ID) | .status');
          done
          if [[ "$vdb_check" == "UP" ]]; then
          echo "VDBCreate passed"
          else 
          echo "VDBCreate failed"
          exit 1
          fi
          curl -X GET "http://${{ vars.VIRTUALIZATION_IP }}:8080/api/v1/lvm/info/$VDB_ID" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

This script relies on pre-defined variables. The variables should be defined in the repository’s settings, under Actions secrets and variables, as described here

Variables:

VIRTUALIZATION_IP - the IP/hostname of an Accelario Virtualization central server
SNAPSHOT_ID - snapshot id to create VDB from
TGT_HOME_ID - target home id to start the VDB in

Secrets:

VIRTUALIZATION_LOGIN - username to Accelario Virtualization
VIRTUALIZATION_PASSWORD - password to Accelario Virtualization