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Within VMware Aria Automation Pipelines, Stages and Tasks are fundamental components that define the workflow. Here’s how they function:

A Task can run either in parallel or sequentially to other Tasks within the same Stage (A) : This flexibility allows for efficient resource usage and optimization of deployment processes.

A Stage can run either in parallel or sequentially to other Stages within the same Pipeline (B) : This enables complex workflows to be broken down into

manageable segments, which can be executed based on dependencies or simultaneously if there are no interdependencies.

A Stage can have more than one Task (E) : Each Stage can encapsulate multiple Tasks, allowing for intricate workflows within a single Stage.

A Pipeline can have more than one Stage (F) : A pipeline is typically composed of multiple stages, each representing a different phase of the deployment process, such as development, testing, and production.

These configurations provide significant flexibility and control over the deployment processes within VMware Aria Automation Pipelines, facilitating sophisticated CI/CD workflows.

References

Using VMware Aria Automation Pipelines

VMware Aria Automation Pipelines User Guide

A cloud zone in VMware Aria Automation is used to segregate resources for provisioning within a cloud account. It acts as a logical partition within a cloud account that organizes compute resources, which are used for deploying workloads. Cloud zones allow administrators to control the distribution of resources and ensure that specific projects or business units can deploy their workloads only within the designated zones.

This segregation helps in managing resource allocation more efficiently and can also support various organizational policies and compliance requirements by isolating environments such as development, testing, and production.

References:

Using cloud zones in VMware Aria Automation

For the VMware Aria Automation onboarding plan to run successfully, two critical pre-requisites must be met:

Add the cloud account and create cloud zones for compute resources where machines to be onboarded are located: This ensures that the necessary

cloud infrastructure is available and properly configured for onboarding. Cloud zones represent specific regions or sets of resources within the cloud

provider that will host the onboarded machines.

Create a project with at least one user and give the project access to the cloud zones: Projects in VMware Aria Automation define boundaries for resource usage,

permissions, and policies. By assigning at least one user to the project and ensuring the project has access to the relevant cloud zones, the onboarding process

can allocate and manage resources as needed within the defined scope.

These steps ensure that the infrastructure and permissions are correctly set up to support the onboarding of virtual machines, providing a smooth and controlled process for integrating existing resources into VMware Aria Automation.

References:

VMware Aria Automation Documentation

VMware Aria Suite Overview

VMware Technical Support routinely requests diagnostic information when you submit a support request. This diagnostic information contains product-specific logs and configuration files from the host on which the product runs.

Automation Orchestrator Appliance logs are stored in the /data/vco/usr/lib/vco/app-server/logs/ directory. You export the logs of your Automation Orchestrator

Appliance deployment by logging in to the appliance command line and running the vracli log-bundle command. The generated log bundle is saved on the root

folder of your Automation Orchestrator Appliance.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/8.17/Installing-Configuring-Automation-Orchestrator/GUID-0BA1B08B-7A94-45AD-ADFF-3440529E5F59.html#:~:text=Automation%20Orchestrator%20Appliance%20logs%20are,%2Dserver%2Flogs%2F%20directory .

Create a new Image Mapping within VMware Aria Automation Assembler : This step involves creating an image mapping that references the base image. It ensures that your deployment configurations are applied to the correct base image.

Select the original Linux OS Virtual Machine template as the base image : Instead of creating a new template, use the existing Linux OS template, minimizing the number of templates required.

Add the required configuration into the cloud configuration : This step ensures that additional configurations, such as creating local users and groups, are applied during the deployment process irrespective of the cloud template.

Save the image mapping : Finalize and save the image mapping to make it available for use in deployments.

These steps minimize the number of VM templates by reusing the existing template and ensure that additional configurations are always applied through the cloud configuration.

References:

Getting Started with VMware Aria Automation

VMware Aria Automation 8.10 Reference Architecture Guide