How to disable Aria Automation Orchestrator ControlCenter container

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Here are the steps to disable ControlCenter container for Orchestrator 8.X

Environment

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.x

Resolution

Enable/Disable settings can be revert if needed, just add CC containers line back to the deployment.yaml

1. Take a backup of the  /opt/charts/vco/templates/deployment.yaml

cp /opt/charts/vco/templates/deployment.yaml /home/root/deployment-vco-old.yaml
2. Edit the deployment.yaml file located in /opt/charts/vco/templates/deployment.yaml You need to delete the vco-controlcenter-app from the yaml file. The container definition begins at:

- name: vco-controlcenter-app
  {{- if .Values.image.remoteRegistry }} 

and ends at 

{{- if .Values.enableResourceLimits }}
resources:
  limits:
    memory: {{ .Values.controlCenterMemoryLimit | quote }}
  requests:
    memory: {{ .Values.controlCenterMemoryRequest | quote }}
{{- end }} 

Everything between(and including) these segments should be deleted. After that running deploy.sh will restart the environment and the control-center container won't be created.
*** The changes are persistent until an eventual upgrade of the environment.

3. Restart all pods
a) restart pods using deploy.sh

/opt/scripts/deploy.sh

b) when all pods are up you should see only 2 containers running for vco pod

You can check running pods using command:

kubectl -n prelude get pods