vRealize Automation 8.0 is now available!

[gradinka]

vRealize Automation 8.0 is now available

What’s New

The many benefits of vRA 8.0 include:

• Modern Platform using Kubernetes based micro-services architecture
• 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, refer to the Release Notes

Resources

• vRealize Automation 8.0 Release Notes
• vRealize Automation 8.0 Documentation
• vRealize Automation 8.0 Download Landing page

Builds:

• vRA Easy Installer ISO - #14878991
• vRA product build (VA) - #14842736

[npadmani]

Thanks for sharing.

[rmav01]

Thanks for the update!

This requires a new instance of LCM correct? There isn't a support pack we can install on an existing LCM (2.1.0 Patch 2) in order to deploy this?

[daphnissov]

For any users that come across this, please see my open and honest FAQ that should answer some questions.

[GeiAll]

Thank you for a well written facts about vRA 8.0.
Very helpful indeed.

Do you know if vRO is/will split from the standalone version? 

Personally I think it's abit strange they call it vRA, when it's a completely different product and not backward compatible.
But I'm guessing that vmware marketing department will rename it when they reach their next "let's rename everthing and confuse all our customers" meeting... 🙂

[daphnissov]

There is a slightly modified version of vRO for vRA Cloud and vRA 8 that "understands" this new application change, but that's about it.