Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use cases in cloud environments Manage vRealize Automation entities on VMware and third
- party virtual and cloud infrastructures Configure and manage Cloud Accounts, Projects, Flavor Mappings, Image Mappings, Network Profiles, Storage Profiles, Volumes, Tags, and Services Create, modify, manage, and deploy Cloud Templates Connect to a Kubernetes Cluster and manage namespaces Customize services and virtual machines with cloudConfig Configure and manage the Service Broker Configure and manage ABX actions, custom properties, event broker subscriptions, and vRealize Orchestrator workflows Integrate with vRealize Orchestrator Install vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Configuration Manager Describe Cloud Automation Services (Cloud Assembly and Code Stream). Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform and SaltStack Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vRealize Automation
Agenda
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the purpose and functionality of vRealize Automation
- Describe the vRealize Automation architecture
- Describe the use of VMware Workspace ONE® AccessTM
- Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, containers, and vRealize Automation services
- Describe CLI commands for vRealize Automation 8 cluster management
- Describe Cloud Assembly
- Describe Service Broker
- Describe Code Stream
- List the different vRealize Automation deployment types
- Describe the purpose of vRealize easy installer
- Describe the vRealize Automation installation process
- Identity the steps involved in integrating Workspace One with Active Directory
- Describe features of Workspace One
- Describe the user roles available in vRealize Automation
- Identify the key tasks performed by each user role
- Define custom roles
- Configure branding and multitenancy
- Quickly create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image mapping.
- Configure and deploy a basic cloud template
- Create cloud templates that can run on any cloud
- Use cloudConfig to run commands, install software, and create users
- Use YAML for inputs, variables, and conditional deployments
- Configure tags
- Describe different types of tags
- Manage tags
- Configure storage profiles
- Use tags and storage profiles
- List the capabilities and use cases of NSX-T Data Center
- Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
- Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Automation
- List the supported network profiles in vRealize Automation
- Use NSX-T Data Center components to design a multitier application Cloud Template
- Identify the network and security options available in design canvas
- Create and manage on-demand networks and security groups
- Configure NSX-T day 2 actions
- Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation accounts
- Configure and use an AWS cloud account
- Configure and use an Azure cloud account
- Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
- Release a VMware Cloud Template™
- Define content source and content sharing
- Define Service Broker policy enforcement
- Use custom forms for catalog items
- Describe Extensibility
- Use event topics
- Create a subscription
- Call a vRealize Orchestrator workflow
- Create ABX actions
- Introduction to Code Stream
- The CI/CD process
- Integrate GitLab with Code Stream and Cloud Assembly
- Use Code Stream to install software
- Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform
- Use Terraform with a VMware Cloud Template
- Use Terraform with Code Stream
- Introduction to Kubernetes
- Connect to an existing Kubernetes Cluster
- Integrate VMware Tanzu™ Grid Integrated Edition
- Create a Supervisor Namespace as a catalog item
- Introduction SaltStack with vRealize Automation
- Use SaltStack for software deployment
- Use SaltStack for configuration management
- Use SaltStack with event-driven orchestration
- Location of logs
- Using Activity
- Monitoring deployment history
- Basic troubleshooting
- CLI commands
- Collecting logs (VAMI console)
- Integration with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
- Integration with vRealize Operations
- Migrating vRealize Automation 7.x to 8
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