Course Overview
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.
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere™ 7.0.3, VMware vSphere™ 8.0.1
- VMware Aria Automation™ 8.13
- VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle™ 8.13
- VMware Aria Automation Config™ 8.13
- VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator™ 8.13
- VMware vSphere With Tanzu 8.0 update 2
- VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI) 22.1.5
Who should attend
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:
Course Objectives
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