Content lifecycle management in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager provides a way for release managers and content developers to manage software-defined data center (SDDC). It includes content capturing, testing, and release to various environments, and source control capabilities through different source control endpoints that include GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Content developers are not allowed to set a Release policy on end-points, only Release Managers can set policies.

Migration of contents or versions is not supported from an older instance to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. The latest content version can be either source control or deploy to an endpoint before moving to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager . So that the same content can be re-captured from the endpoint in the new instance.

Migration of endpoints and content settings are captured supported:
  • All the endpoints are migrated along with source control user tokens.
  • Tags associated with the endpoints are migrated to new instance.
  • Pipeline stub configurations are migrated.
Note: When a cloud admin user gets a role of release manager or content developer, the cloud admin can only view the content management app inside the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. But the cloud admin does not have permission to view other applications. Whereas a Release manager and a content developer user can view the content management app. As a workaround, you can perform all the cloud admin operations using cloud admin role only and do not provide additional permission or role mapping.
You can use the content lifecycle management to dispense with the time-consuming and error-prone manual processes required to manage the software-defined content. Supported content includes entities from:
Product Name Supported Version
vRealize Automation 7.2 and later
vRealize Orchestrator 7.x and later
VMware vSphere 6.0 and later
vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1+ and later
Source Control servers
  • GitHub Enterprise Server: 2.20.15, 2.19.21, 2.21.6, and 3.0 (GitHub Cloud is not supported)
  • GitLab: 12.2.12 (Enterprise Edition), 12.7, and 12.8
  • Bitbucket Server 6.10 and 7.0
  • Bitbucket Cloud: Version 2.0
  • Azure DevOps GIT
Content lifecycle management in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is similar to content lifecycle management with the vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for DevOps, with the following differences.
  • Content lifecycle management is deployed as part of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager on a single appliance. It has a new user interface and is tightly integrated with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager core services.
  • Updated Pipeline services: Advanced capability to manage content to work with source control to support a multi-developer use case.

If there are dependencies between captured content packages, all the dependencies are captured as first class objects in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Each content version shows all its dependencies associated with it. For example, if a vRealize Automation Composite Blueprint has a dependency on Property-Definition, there are two items in the content catalog, one for each content package. With independent version control for each content package, you can edit, capture, and release dependencies independently so that the content is never old. vRealize Automation allows you to define multiple named value sets within the Size and Image component profile types. You can add one or more of the value sets to machine components in a blueprint. We cannot deploy or release Automation-Component Profiles in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to a target end point if the corresponding value set already exists on the end point.