Hi everyone,

I wanted to share my first experience diving into Nutanix Intelligent Operations and building an automation playbook.

Background

Starting in NCI 7.3, NGT certificates will automatically renew. That means the automation I built is now technically redundant but I still wanted to showcase the work because it was a great learning opportunity for me.

What I Built

I created an automation playbook that:

• Triggered when an alert was raised for an expiring NGT certificate

• Gathered VM and cluster information

• Identified the cluster IP

• Ran a custom command sequence from the CVM to renew the certificate

Along the way, I ran into a few challenges, like environment variable issues and command execution errors but troubleshooting those gave me a much deeper understanding of how Nutanix tools operate under the hood.

Why Share This?

Even though my playbook won’t be needed going forward, it was my first real deep dive into Intelligent Operations. It taught me how powerful this feature can be for automation and how it could be applied to other real-world scenarios beyond certificates.

Check out the full write-up here

Automating NGT Certificate Renewal in Nutanix

I’d love feedback from the community:

• Have others here built similar automations for different use cases?

• Any tips on how to approach more complex workflows as I keep learning?

Thanks for reading, and looking forward to learning more from this community!