VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics [v8.14]
Level: Standard
Description
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.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should have:
- Completed the VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.10] course (H38FPS)
9 lesson(s) covers:
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- 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
- 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 cloud-init
- Use advanced YAML techniques to create configuration files and add users to deployed virtual machines
- 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
- 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
- Using ABX Actions
- Use ABX to create day-2 Actions
- Create ABX Action-Flows
- Use ABX to make REST calls
- 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
- 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
- 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