VMware Aria Automation is an automation platform where you build and manage modern applications.

Depending on your user role, you use different components, or services, of VMware Aria Automation for your automation tasks.

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What is Automation Assembler

You use VMware Aria Automation Assembler to create and deploy machines, applications, and services to your cloud infrastructure.

As a cloud administrator, you can:
  • Configure the cloud vendor infrastructure to which your users deploy their cloud templates.
  • Set up projects to link the service users with the infrastructure resources.
  • Delegate the user management and deployment infrastructure to project managers, freeing you up to focus on your cloud resources.
As a cloud template developer, you can:
  • Create and iterate on templates until they meet your development needs.
  • Deploy templates to the supporting cloud vendors based on your project membership.
  • Manage the deployed resources throughout the development life cycle.

What is Automation Service Broker

VMware Aria Automation Service Broker provides a single point where you can request and manage catalog items.

As a cloud administrator, you create catalog items by importing released Automation Assembler templates and Amazon Web Services CloudFormation templates that your users can deploy to your cloud vendor regions or datastores.

As a user, you can request and monitor the provisioning process. After deployment, you manage the deployed catalog items throughout the deployment lifecycle.

What is Automation Pipelines

VMware Aria Automation Pipelines is continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) software that supports deploying monolithic legacy applications, and uses Docker containers and Kubernetes containers running on multiple clouds.

With Automation Pipelines, you create pipelines that automate your entire DevOps lifecycle while using existing development tools such as Git and Jenkins.

Automation Pipelines simplifies the ability to build, test, and deploy your applications, and increases your productivity as you release source code from the development repository, through testing, to production. Automation Pipelines supports custom and commercial applications, and objects such as Templates in Automation Assembler.

What is Automation Orchestrator

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator is a development- and process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows.

Automation Orchestrator automates management and operational tasks of both VMware and third-party applications such as service desks, change management systems, and IT asset management systems.

For more information about setting up Automation Orchestrator, see Configure an Automation Orchestrator integration in Automation Assembler.