Live-Online: VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics (v8.14)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Using ABX Actions

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

• Describing and configuring VMware Aria Automation in a clustered enterprise deployment using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
• Scaling VMware Identity Manager to support high availability
• Using external certification authorities to configure security certificates in VMware Aria Automation
• Creating YAML templates for configuring VMware Aria Automation with cloudConfig
• Using advanced templates for VMware Aria Automation to deploy a 2-tier database server with MySQL and phpMyAdmin
• Utilizing advanced network features of VMware NSX, including NAT, routed networks, load balancers, security groups, and tags
• Integrating and using NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Aria Automation and VMware NSX
• Creating and using Aria Automation pipelines for software deployment and connecting with Kubernetes
• Creating and using Ansible playbooks for integration with VMware Aria Automation
• Integrating Aria Automation with Terraform
• Integrating Aria Automation with GitLab
• Creating Orchestrator workflows and ABX actions that interface with other systems and use REST calls
• Configuring and using Orchestrator workflows and ABX actions to create Day-2 actions and interface with PowerShell scripts
• Using Aria Automation to deploy minions and provision software

This course is designed for experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying VMware Aria Automation in advanced configurations in enterprise implementations.

This course requires the completion of the VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.10] course or equivalent knowledge.