vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.2 introduces many awesome new features including enhanced governance through shared infrastructure multi-tenancy, custom role based access control, and new approval options. Support for Terraform is provided directly on the design canvas and full support for the NSX-T Policy APIs is available. This blog post will walk through the new features
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VMware vRealize Automation 8.2 is HERE, scroll down to learn more! We are announcing the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.2, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading modern infrastructure automation platform. With the new and enhanced capabilities in vRealize Automation 8.2, customers can rapidly implement self-service clouds, multicloud automation with governance, DevOps-based infrastructure
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Providing a self-service catalog can be a great way to allow users in an organization to quickly get applications and services they need and can help IT focus on other tasks outside of just full-filling requests for machines. However when a catalog is presented to an organization it is important that there are some guardrails
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VMware has announced an intent to acquire SaltStack! We are very excited about this announcement and we are sure our customers will be excited about this as well. You can read more about the acquisition here: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/09/saltandvra.html SaltStack can help IT with the following: Continuous Compliance Vulnerability Remediation Security Scanning Event-Driven Orchestration Auto-Scaling Application Deployment And much more! In order
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Extensibility has a long history within VMware’s Automation and Operations suites. Extensibility has traditionally been defined as how we create interactions with platforms outside of our management platform. Some of the most common examples of this are… Interacting with IPAM Systems (Infoblox, BlueCat, etc) Pushing records into Configuration Management Databases (CMDB’s) Creating Records in DNS
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No one could’ve anticipated what COVID-19 would bring to the events world, let alone the world entirely. Due to the uncertain conditions, VMworld has moved to a digital format. This provides a unique opportunity for unlimited, free standard registration to make this year’s event the biggest VMworld ever. Are you ready to take your
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The ability to create and manage infrastructure and services for your organization just became more flexible and powerful with the introduction of Custom Resources and Resource Actions in vRealize Automation. Taking advantage of the out-of-the-box integration with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) you can now create Resources and Day-2 actions using vRO workflows in your Cloud Templates
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vRealize Automation Code Stream uses a Docker host to run CI Tasks by spinning up a specified container for the lifetime of the Pipeline, allowing you to execute scripted tasks inside the container and return the results. One question I get asked a lot is “how do I set up a Docker host for Code
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Packer is a powerful open source tool that can be used for automating the builds of your vSphere templates, AWS custom AMIs and Azure images, which can then be deployed with vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly. In this blog post and video I’ll demonstrate how to use vRealize Automation Code Stream to automate the build, test
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DevOps is an ever evolving landscape and vRealize Automation supports the growing space by keeping its frameworks open to leverage DevOps principals effectively in context of deploying infrastructure and brokering services. In this blog article, me and my teammate, Scott Young, attempt to bring out some of the best use cases for vRealize Automation from
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