VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics [v8.14]

This four-day course is a follow-on to the VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage course. During this course, you will take a deeper dive into advanced topics using features of VMware Aria Automation such as deploying user systems and interfacing Aria Automation with other platforms. You will also learn how to deploy a cluster environment using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and interface with, and use, vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This course makes heavy use of hands-on labs.

Duration

4 days

Audience

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

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following courses:

• VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.10]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe and configure VMware Aria Automation in a clustered enterprise deployment using with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

• Scale out VMware Identity Manager to support High Availability

• Use external Certificate Authorities to configure security certificates in VMware Aria Automation

• Create YAML templates to configure VMware Aria Automation using cloudConfig

• Use VMware Aria Automation advanced templates to deploy a 2-tier Database-Server using MySQL and phpMyAdmin

• Use Advanced VMware NSX networking features including NAT, routed networks, load balancers, security groups, and tags

• Integrate and use NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Aria Automation and VMware NSX

• Create and use Aria Automation Pipelines to deploy software and connect to Kuberenetes

• Create and use Ansible playbooks that integrate with VMware Aria Automation

• Integrate Aria Automation with Terraform

• Integrate Aria Automation with GitLab

• Create Orchestrator Workflows and ABX Actions that interface with other systems and use REST calls

• Configure and use Orchestrator Workflows and ABX actions to create day-2 actions and interface with Powershell scripts

• Use Aria Automation to deploy minions and deploy software

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