In a previous post, I described some of the steps I took to stand up a homelab including vRealize Automation (vRA) on an Intel NUC 9. One of my initial goals for that lab was to use it for developing and testing a way for vRA to leverage phpIPAM↗ for static IP assignments. The homelab worked brilliantly for that purpose, and those extra internal networks were a big help when it came to testing. I was able to deploy and configure a new VM to host the phpIPAM instance, install the VMware vRealize Third-Party IPAM SDK↗ on my Chromebook's Linux environment, develop and build the integration component, import it to my vRA environment, and verify that deployments got addressed accordingly.