Working with Blueprints/Cloud Templates and Deployments Using vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly APIs

To create and update blueprints, version blueprints, and deploy blueprints, you use the vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly Blueprint APIs. Blueprints is the term used in the API. In the product, blueprints are renamed to VMware Cloud Templates.

Prerequisites for Working with Blueprints

All tasks for working with blueprints share the following common prerequisites:

Verify that you are at least an organization member in VMware vRealize Automation with a vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly administrator service role.
Verify that you have an active access token. See Getting Your Authentication Token.
Verify that the URL variable is assigned.
```
url='https://appliance.domain.com'
```
Verify that the API version variable is assigned to a date as in the following example.
```
api_version='2019-09-12'
```
If you do not lock your use case to the apiVersion in the example, lock it to the API version date that most recently worked for you so that an API change does not cause an unexpected change in an API response. See API versioning.

Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.