Enhance your expertise with our VMware Aria Automation : Advanced Topics (v8.14) course. This course is tailored to provide a deep dive into advanced concepts and practical applications. You will master Clustered deployment, work with External certificates, and scale out VMware Identity Manager for high availability. Learn to use advanced YAML and CloudConfig for creating complex templates, and leverage VMware NSX for advanced networking configurations. Get hands-on with Orchestrator workflows and ABX actions for automation tasks. Integrate Kubernetes and manage CI/CD pipelines efficiently. Additionally, comprehend and use Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform for configuration management. This course ensures you have the skills to deploy, manage, and optimize VMware Aria Automation in real-world scenarios.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
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Describe and configure Aria Automation in a clustered enterprise deployment using Aria Suite Lifecycle.
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Scale out Identity Manager to support High Availability.
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Use external Certificate Authorities to configure security certificates in Aria Automation.
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Create YAML templates to configure Aria Automation using cloudConfig.
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Use Aria Automation advanced templates to deploy a 2-tier Database-Server using MySQL and phpMyAdmin.
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Use advanced networking features including NAT, routed networks, load balancers, security groups, and tags.
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Integrate and use Advanced Load Balancer with Aria Automation and NSX.
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Create and use Aria Automation Pipelines to deploy software and connect to Kubernetes.
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Create and use Ansible playbooks that integrate with Aria Automation.
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Integrate Aria Automation with Terraform.
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Integrate Aria Automation with GitLab.
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Create Orchestrator Workflows and ABX Actions that interface with other systems and use REST calls.
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Configure and use Orchestrator Workflows and ABX actions to create day-2 actions and interface with PowerShell scripts.
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Use Aria Automation to deploy minions and deploy software.
Who Can Benefit
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for using Aria Automation in advanced configurations in enterprise deployments.
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the following course:
Target Audience
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Cloud Architects
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IT Infrastructure Managers
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System Administrators
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Network Engineers
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DevOps Engineers
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VMware Administrators
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Automation Engineers
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IT Consultants
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Cloud Engineers
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Platform Engineers
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Data Center Specialists
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Technical Support Engineers
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IT Operations Managers
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Software Developers (focusing on Infrastructure as Code)
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Kubernetes Administrators
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Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Engineers
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Security Engineers (working with VMware NSX Security Groups)
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IT Project Managers
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Solutions Architects
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Enterprise Architects
Course Outline:
1. Course Introduction
2. VMware Aria Automation Clustered Deployment
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Using Aria Suite Lifecycle in a clustered deployment
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Configure External Certificates
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Configure VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
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Install VMware Aria Automation using Clustered Deployment
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Scale out VMware Identity Manager to support High Availability
3. Advanced VMware Aria Automation Templates
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Use advanced YAML and cloudConfig to deploy a functioning 2-tier application with a phpMyAdmin front end server and a MySQL database server
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Use cloudConfig and cloud-init
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Use advanced YAML techniques to create configuration files and add users to deployed virtual machines
4. Advanced Networking
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Use VMware NSX advanced features in VMware Aria Automation templates
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Interfacing to IPAMs
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Use VMware NSX NAT in VMware Aria Automation templates
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Use VMware NSX Routed Networks
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Use VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
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Use VMware NSX Security Groups
5. Advanced Orchestrator Workflows
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Create Day-2 Actions with Orchestrator workflows
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Use Orchestrator to add computer objects to Active Directory when VMware Aria Automation deploys templates
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Create VMware Aria Automation Custom Resources
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Create VMware Aria Automation Resource Actions
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Use VMware Aria Automation with Orchestrator to perform REST calls
6. Using ABX Actions
7. Kubernetes Integration
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Describe vSphere with Tanzu
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Create a Supervisor Cluster
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Create a Supervisor Namespace
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Create Cluster Plans
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Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster from Aria Automation
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Manage Kubernetes Tanzu clusters from Aria Automation
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Execute YAML code and deploy software in a managed Tanzu Kubernetes cluster
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Connect to an existing generic Kubernetes cluster
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Create Kubernetes namespaces from Aria Automation
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Interface Aria Automation to other Kubernetes systems
8. Aria Automation Pipelines
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Create and use CI/CD pipelines
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Use the Pipeline user interface
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Add states and tasks to a pipeline
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Integrate code from a pipeline with GitLab
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Use an Aria Automation pipeline to install software
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Use an Aria Automation pipeline to create a Kubernetes Namespace and a Deployment
9. Aria Automation and Configuration Management
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Describe Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform
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Integrate Ansible with VMware Aria Automation
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Integrate Terraform with VMware Aria Automation
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Call Terraform from VMware Aria Automation
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Use Terraform to manage VMware Aria Automation
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Deploy an Aria Automation Config minion
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Install software on an Aria Automation Config minion
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Create and manage files on a Linux system with Aria Automation Config
Live Online Training (Duration : 32 Hours)
