This section contains the most recent listing of Aria Automation for Secure Clouds features that are available in Tanzu Hub as of this article's publication date.
Onboarding
You can onboard your cloud resources into Tanzu Hub by navigating to Administration > Set up and Configure > Accounts. The process is very similar to how you would onboard in VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds. All existing cloud accounts are available automatically in Tanzu Hub, so you would only need to onboard new accounts this way. You may also continue to onboard with the public API as usual.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Setting up data connections in VMware Tanzu Hub
Dashboards
You can view your security dashboard in Tanzu Hub by navigating to Guardails > Summary. The standard trends and compliance dashboards are available.
Findings
You can review findings in Tanzu Hub by navigating to Guardrails > Findings. You can find the familiar security findings as well as new drift type findings based on defined configuration states on this page. Review the Tanzu Hub documentation to learn more about the additional capabilities here.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Investigate VMware Tanzu Guardrails findings
Rules
Rules for Aria Automation for Secure Clouds have been rebranded as posture policies in Tanzu Hub and are available under Guardrails > Policies > View Policies (Posture Policies). You can select which policies you want active in Tanzu Hub and create your own custom policies as well. Any custom rules you created in VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds carry over to Tanzu Hub.
This necessitates a change to the rules release notes to maintain a single source of truth. The VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds Rules Release Notes are now the Tanzu Hub Governance Policy Release Notes and have been moved to the central documentation for Tanzu Hub. Updates to the security posture policies in Tanzu Hub also apply to rules in VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds, along with compliance frameworks.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Creating and using custom posture policies in VMware Tanzu Hub
Suppressions
Suppressions can be accessed at Guardrails > Suppressions and work the same as in Aria Automation for Secure Clouds.
Relevant Tanzu Hub Documentation: Create suppression policies for VMware Tanzu Guardrails findings in VMware Tanzu Hub
Projects
You can set up projects in Tanzu Hub by navigating to Administration > Set up and Configure > Projects. Creating projects and adding users is similar to VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds, but you need additional service roles for Tanzu Hub to do so. See the Tanzu Hub documentation for more information.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Setting up users and projects for VMware Tanzu Hub
Explore
The Explore tab in Tanzu Hub contains the available explore features, including search, inventory, and Kubernetes. Most of the same Explore features and more are available in Tanzu Hub except for custom SSQL queries.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Managing your resources and applications in VMware Tanzu Hub
Inbound Integrations
Inbound integrations are available in Tanzu Hub as findings sources under Administration > Set up and Configure > Findings sources. Available sources are Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Add findings sources for VMware Tanzu Guardrails governance in VMware Tanzu Hub
Outbound Integrations
Outbound integrations are available in Tanzu Hub as notifications. You can reach them by navigating to Administration > Set Up and Configure > Notification management.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Add alert notifications in VMware Tanzu Hub
Compliance Frameworks
You can find compliance frameworks in Tanzu Hub by navigating to Guardrails > Policies > View (Compliance). All frameworks available in Aria Automation for Secure Clouds are also available in Tanzu Hub. You can choose which frameworks you want to have published but must still use Aria Automation for Secure Clouds to clone or create a custom framework. Any custom framework you create in Aria Automation for Secure Clouds carries over into Tanzu Hub.
Relevant Tanzu Hub documentation: Apply a predefined Tanzu Hub governance benchmark
Entitlements
As Entitlements were in beta and not yet generally available for VMware Automation for Secure Clouds, it is not planned for availability in Tanzu Hub by the March 31 transition date. Instead, Entitlements will be taken back into development by the engineering team and released for Tanzu Hub at a later date.
