On October 17th, 2019 VMware announced the next major release of vRealize Automation. it uses a modern Kubernetes based micro-services architecture and brings vRA cloud capabilities to the on-premises form factor.

What’s New

The many benefits of vRA 8.0 include:

• Modern Platform using Kubernetes based micro-services architecture that provides
• Easy to setup and consume multi-cloud infrastructure surface
• Embedded vRO 8.0 Web Client and Orchestrator’s new release features
• Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code using a declarative YAML syntax
• Cloud Agnostic Blueprints
• Iterative development of Blueprints
• Self-service catalog coupled with agile governance
• Collaboration across teams via sharing of objects
• Kubernetes/container management
• Deploy IPv6 workloads on dual-stack IP (IPv4/ IPv6) networks in vSphere
• CI/CD pipeline and automated application release management
• New Action based extensibility (ABX), which allows you to write lightweight scripts, using node.js and python.
• Git Integration to manage all blueprints, workflows, actions and pipelines.

For more information, kindly refer to the Release Notes

vRealize Automation 8.0 is installed, configured, managed and upgraded only through vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 .

In the video posted below, I’am going to provide the step-by-step process of using the vRealize Easy Installer to :

• Install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0
• Deploy VMware Identity Manager 3.3.1 and register with vRealize Automation.
• Install new instance of vRealize Automation 8.0

Installation Workflow