VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics [v8.14] («VAADVA»)

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 VMware Aria Automation Clustered Deployment

• Using Aria Suite Lifecycle in a clustered deployment
• Configure External Certificates
• Configure VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Install VMware Aria Automation using Clustered Deployment
• Scale out VMware Identity Manager to support High Availability

3 Advanced VMware Aria Automation Templates

• Use advanced YAML and cloudConfig to deploy a functioning 2-tier application with a phpMyAdmin front end server and a MySQL database server
• Use cloudConfig and cloug-init
• Use advanced YAML techniques to create configuration files and add users to deployed virtual machines

4 Advanced Networking

• Use VMware NSX advanced features in VMware Aria Automation templates
• Interfacing to IPAMs
• Use VMware NSX NAT in VMware Aria Automation templates
• Use VMware NSX Routed Networks
• Use VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Use VMware NSX Security Groups

5 Advanced Orchestrator Workflows

• Create Day-2 Actions with Orchestrator workflows
• Use Orchestrator to Add computer objects to Active Directory when VMware Aria Automation deploys templates
• Create VMware Aria Automation Custom Resources
• Create VMware Aria Automation Resource Actions
• Use VMware Aria Automation with Orchestrator to perform REST calls

6 Using ABX Actions

• Use ABX to create day-2 Actions
• Create ABX Action-Flows
• Use ABX to make REST calls

7 Kubernetes Integration

• Describe vSphere With Tanzu
• Create a Supervisor Cluster
• Create a Supervisor Namespace
• Create Cluster Plans
• Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster from Aria Automation
• Manage Kubernetes Tanzu clusters from Aria Automation
• Execute YAML code and deploy software in a managed Tanzu Kubernetes cluster
• Connect to an existing generic Kubernetes cluster
• Create Kubernetes namespaces from Aria Automation
• Interface Aria Automation to other Kubernetes systems

8 Aria Automation Pipelines

• Create and use CI/CD pipelines
• Use the Pipeline user interface
• Add states and tasks to a pipeline
• Integrate code from a pipeline with Gitlab
• Use an Aria Automation pipeline to install software
• Use an Aria Automation Pipeline to Create a Kubernetes Namespace and a Deployment

9 Aria Automation and Configuration Management

• Describe Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform
• Integrate Ansible with VMware Aria Automation
• Integrate Terraform with VMware Aria Automation
• Call Terraform from VMware Aria Automation
• Use Terraform to manage VMware Aria Automation
• Deploy an Aria Automation Config minion
• Install software on an Aria Automation Config minion
• Create and manage files on a Linux system with Aria Automation Config

This course is aimed at experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for using VMware Aria Automation in advanced configurations in enterprise deployments.

This course requires completion of the course «VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.10]».

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• VCAP – Cloud Management and Automation Design

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provided when you registered. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises in parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.