What's New in VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) 8?

This is the next major release of vRealize Automation.

This release of vRealize Automation uses a Kubernetes based micro-services architecture. The new release takes a modern approach to delivering hybrid cloud management, extending cloud management to public clouds, delivering applications with DevOps and managing Kubernetes based workloads.

The many benefits of vRealize Automation 8.0 include:

1. Modern Platform using Kubernetes based micro-services architecture that provides

2. Simple install footprint for both non-HA and HA configurations

3. Scalable to meet modern workload challenges

4. Easy to setup and consume multi-cloud infrastructure surface

5. API-first approach to deliver cloud automation

6. Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code using a declarative YAML syntax

7. Iterative development of blueprints

8. Cloud Agnostic Blueprints

9. Collaboration across teams via sharing of objects

10. Self-service catalog coupled with agile governance

11. Simple policies

12. Native support for SPBM policies

13. Deploy IPv6 workloads on dual-stack IP (IPv4/ IPv6) networks in vSphere

14. CI/CD pipeline and automated application release management

15. Kubernetes/container management

16. New Action based extensibility (ABX), which allows you to write lightweight scripts, using node.js and python.

17. Git Integration to manage all blueprints, workflows, actions and pipelines.

18. Workload on-boarding with existing data center VMs

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