VMware vRealize Automation

What is VMware vRealize Automation?

VMware vRealize Automation is a modern infrastructure automation platform with event-driven state management. It is designated to help organizations control and secure self-service hybrid clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery. With vRealize Automation, internal IT operations, DevOps engineers, developers, and the lines of business get the environments and resources that they need faster with a public cloud-like user experience, while IT maintains security, compliance, and control. This means that customers benefit from increased scalability, speed, flexibility and reliability as they reduce the complexity of their IT environment, streamline IT processes, and deliver a DevOps-ready automation platform.

vRealize Automation components

VMware Cloud Assembly

VMware Cloud Assembly is a multi-cloud provisioning service. For virtualized data center infrastructure based on VMware Cloud Foundation, it offers the ability to create a private cloud. VMware Cloud Assembly provides a cloud API layer utilized by the templating engine. It also supports extensibility mechanisms for private cloud through VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflows and event-broker subscriptions.

VMware Service Broker

VMware Service Broker aggregates content from multiple resources and platforms, including VMware Cloud Assembly, vRealize Orchestrator, and native public clouds, into a common product catalog. It provides a self-service model with flexible, policy-based guardrails for governance. Enable a federated catalog by leveraging vRealize Automation Cloud™ for on-premises instances.

VMware Code Stream

VMware Code Stream automates the application and infrastructure delivery process with release pipeline management, including visibility and analytics into active pipelines and their status for troubleshooting. It allows DevOps teams to leverage existing tools and processes with out-of-the-box integration.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator

vRealize Orchestrator simplifies and automates complex data center infrastructure tasks, delivering consistent remediation of issues, extensibility and fast service delivery.

VMware vRealize Automation SaltStack Config

SaltStack Config can easily define optimized, compliant software states and enforce them across your entire environment—virtualized, hybrid or public cloud—with powerful, intuitive configuration automation.

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