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VMware Aria Automation: Advanced Topics [V8.14]
This five-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...
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Duration
5 days
Course Code
EDU-VAAAT814
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Aug 11, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (5 days)
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Overview
This five-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.
Skills Gained
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
Who Can Benefit
- 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]
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Deploying VMware Aria Automation in a Clustered Deployment
- Use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle in a clustered
- deployment
- Configure external certificates
- Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Install VMware Workspace ONE® Access™ in a
- clustered deployment
- Install VMware Aria Automation using a clustered
- deployment
Using VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Workflows for Extensibility
- 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 Orchestrator to
- perform REST calls
VMware Aria Automation Advanced ABX Actions
- Use ABX to create day 2 actions
- Create ABX action flows
- Use ABX to make REST calls
Integrating Kubernetes with VMware Aria Automation
- Describe vSphere with Tanzu
- Create a Supervisor cluster
- Create a Supervisor namespace
- Create Kubernetes zones
- Create cluster plans
- Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster from
- VMware Aria Automation
- Manage Tanzu clusters from VMware Aria
- Automation
- Execute YAML code and deploy software in a
- managed Tanzu cluster
- Connect to an existing generic Kubernetes cluster
- Create Kubernetes namespaces from VMware Aria
- Automation
- Interface VMware Aria Automation to other
- Kubernetes systems
VMware Aria Automation Pipelines
- Create and use CI/CD pipelines
- Use the VMware Aria Automation Pipelines UI
- Add states and tasks to a pipeline
- Integrate code from a pipeline with GitLab
- Use a VMware Aria Automation pipeline to install
- software
- Use a VMware Aria Automation pipeline to create a
- Kubernetes namespace and a deployment
VMware Aria Automation and Configuration Management Tools
- Describe Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, and VMware
- Aria Automation Config
- 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 a VMware Aria Automation Config minion
- Install software on a VMware Aria Automation
- Config minion
- Create and manage files on a Linux system with
- VMware Aria Automation Config
Schedule
2 options available
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Aug 11, 2025 - Aug 15, 2025 (5 days)
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Oct 20, 2025 - Oct 24, 2025 (5 days)
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