Those who are working on VCF are aware of the fact that, after a successful bringup, the only option you get is to launch SDDC Manager. There is no option in UI to go back to cloud builder initial screen where you can upload configuration workbook xls/json to start a fresh bringup.

One work around to this problem is to take snapshot of cloud builder before bringup and revert snapshot after succesful bringup to start again.

But this task seems very tedious to me. If you are running a huge infrastructure and performs bringup almost every day, this will not be an ideal situation.

In this post I will explain how to get rid of this annoying problem.

This can be achieved by running an internal one liner API call on cloud builder vm as root user.

Just refresh the cloud builder ui after running above API call and job done. 

This is a short post but I believe it will save some time for you 😉

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