Approval policy created via API during deployment lifecycle using Event Broker Subscription (EBS) is sporadically not applied to the deployment

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Environment Setup:

• an Event Broker Subscription (EBS) is configured to create an approval policy, the Orchestrator workflow is configured to create the approval policy via API
  • the issue has been observed during deployment deletion but may also occur during different lifecycle phases
• a second Event Broker Subscription is configured to fail if the deployment has not passed an approval policy

Symptoms:

The Deployment / Day2 action does sporadically fail for the second Event Broker Subscription as there was no approval policy applied.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.x

Cause

The deployment lifecycle passed on to the next stage before the approval policy had been applied to the deployment.

Resolution

Add a sleep interval to the workflow creating the approval policy, after the POST /policy/api/policies API call to ensure the policy has been applied to the deployment.