Working with Blueprints Using vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly APIs

To create and update blueprints, version blueprints, and release versioned blueprints to a catalog, you use the vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly Blueprint APIs.

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'
```
It is not necessary to lock your use case to the date provided in the example. To integrate your use case with the API and lock it to a particular date, you can enter any date you choose. Or if you choose to consume the API without versioning, leave the apiVersion value unspecified and the latest API version is used by default. Backward compatibility is not preserved, but your use case automatically benefits from improvements or enhancements to the API.

Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.