topic Re: Plugin Type Ideas in HPE Morpheus Enterprise

Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:05:38 GMT

We are rapidly expanding Plugins to support more capabilities into the product and would love to hear from people as to what types of expansions you would like to see next in the product!

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 04 May 2022 21:30:24 GMT

Hello,

We have unfortunately not yet gotten to making load balancers pluggable. We are doing clouds and backups as we speak. Load balancers will be a fast follower.

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:56:22 GMT

For Backup plugin: It will be good if we can make the table for Backups more customizable.
Currently, if a backup creation encounters an error, the error is displayed under the “Duration” column.
It will be good to add a separate column for Errors and also another column for “Backup Type” if possible

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:45:42 GMT

Hey David, yes, task plugins could support output chaining like the native tasks do. I couldn’t see how to do that - maybe I missed it. Be great to pass the plugin task output down through the workflow.

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 04 May 2022 20:58:49 GMT

I’m interested in seeing some plugin action on the load balancer parts. Is the framework rework completed to allow this type of plugins?

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:26:07 GMT

You should be able to do this. Variables sent to the response data object on the ServiceResponse class can be used as chained variables. Set the Result Type to “JSON” when using a task like this and this should allow objects to be parsed off the data object.

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:48:54 GMT

Great stuff, thank you!

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Thu, 05 May 2022 08:37:21 GMT

Plugin for a pollicy would be useful.

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:08:07 GMT

Would be nice to see a network source of truth plugin ie: Nautobot

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

kevkerr1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:32:10 GMT

We would love to see a Netbox plugin for IPAM

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:35:55 GMT

Thanks David, will look at that!

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:08:38 GMT

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:50:58 GMT

An option to create your own plugins that can interact with the system defined set of policies. I’d envision it to work similar to the ServiceNow integration where the provision/reconfigure/deprovision approval policy allows you to select between ‘Internal’ or any of the available ServiceNow integrations configured in the system. This could enable any of the policies to trigger custom code in a policy plugin to be run.

For example the "Max CPU’ policy for a user could then use a custom plugin to query some external source to see if the user is allowed to provision more VMs taking into account other parameters and more complex functions than what the Morpheus internal routine would use.

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Fri, 27 May 2022 14:18:23 GMT

Should be able to via the morpheus context. If you extend from AbstractTaskService you get some helper methods to access those variables as such

	@Override
	TaskResult executeLocalTask(Task task, Map opts, Container container, ComputeServer server, Instance instance) {
		TaskConfig config = buildLocalTaskConfig([:], task, [], opts).blockingGet()
		if(instance) {
			config = buildInstanceTaskConfig(instance, [:], task, [], opts).blockingGet()
		}
		if(container) {
			config = buildContainerTaskConfig(container, [:], task, [], opts).blockingGet()
		}
	
		executeTask(task, config)
	}

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Fri, 20 May 2022 17:55:41 GMT

Hello Morpheus! Hope you are well. With 5.5.0 and the 0.12.5 plugin framework my task plugin is able to chain result output to subsequent tasks in the workflow. Thank you!

I can read results from previous tasks, but how do I access the morpheus context/vars in the groovy task API. Should we be able to access it?

Re: Plugin Type Ideas

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:19:50 GMT

I was mistaken. A flag was necessary on TaskProvider’s interface.

Boolean hasResults() { return true }

This will be added to morpheus-plugin-api:0.12.5 for Morpheus 5.4.6 Release in May. Thanks for pointing this out!