VAATO: VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics V8.14

• 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 requires completion of the following courses:
  • VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.10]

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for using VMware Aria Automation in advanced configurations in enterprise deployments.

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