Aria on the road - April 2023

 

VMware's Multi-Cloud Management portfolio is in full expansion, it's SaaS offerings receives constant updates as its on-premises counterparts as well. It does not need much to miss some news or important information.
Don't worry !!! I did a review of all the greatest and good news that happens during the past few months.
Keep in mind it's not a comprehensive list, for that matter, I added the release notes links when appropriate.

 

If you are looking for the not so new news, check the previous publication ; )

Good reading !!!

     

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation)
Cloud: March release available on 15/Mar/2023 - Release notes:
On-premises: version 8.11.2 available on 21/Mar/2023

• Selection of Azure disk performance tier during provision of Azure Premium managed disks;
• Support for Azure Government Cloud Regions as an endpoint;
  

More details:
 

Cloud: February release available on 04/Feb/2023 - Release notes:
On-premises: version 8.11.1 available on 21/Feb/2023

• Customized look and feel emails notification;

• GCP Storage buckets are now native resources;

• Google Compute Engine TCP Load Balancers are now native;

•  Saltstack day-2 action includes Additional AuthParams, additionalMinionParams and pillar environment;
• Enhanced allocation of resources at a global level;

More details: 

 

VMware Aria Automation Config (formerly SaltStack Config)

Cloud: March release available on 15/Mar/2023

On-premises: version 8.11.2 available on 21/Mar/2023

• Ability to uprade Salt Master Plugin from SaltStack Config
  

 

Cloud: February release available on 04/Feb/2023

On-premises: version 8.11.1 available on 21/Feb/2023

• Enhancements for Saltstack day-2 operations for additionalAuthParams, additionalMinionParams and pillarEnvironment;

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator

Cloud: March release available on  15/Mar/2023 

On-premises: version 8.11.2 available on 21/Mar/2023 - release notes

• Local repository for scripting dependencies;
• Node.js 18.14.2 runtime available;
  

 

Cloud: February release available on  04/Feb/2023 

On-premises: version 8.11.1 available on 21/Feb/2023 - release notes

• It's a maintenance and bug fixes release;

 

VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds (formerly CloudHealth Secure State) 

Cloud: March release - release notes

• Updated UI to reflect product Name, VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds;
• Secure State tags being renamed to Account tags;
• Support for GCP CIS Foundation Benchmark V2.0.0;
• News and updated rules fo AWS and GCP;
  

Cloud: February release - release notes

• Attach Kubernetes with Helm charts;
• Support for Third-Party Rules (AWS GuardDuty, MS Defender and so on);

• Support for PCI DSS 4.0;
• Support for MITRE ATT&CK Cloud and MITRE ATT&CK Containers 11.0;
  

 

 

VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations)
Cloud: March release available on 14/Mar/2023 - release notes

• Chat in the side help panel to speed up SR opening and resolution;

VMware Aria Operations for Applications (formerly Tanzu Observability)
Cloud: March release - release notes

• New .NET Core integrations;
• improvements to the following integrations;
• Kubernetes;
• Amazon Web Services;
• Microsoft Azure;
• Spring Boot;
• Tanzu Application Services;
  
• Log Data;
• Filebeat
  
• Catchpoint;
  

 

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)
Cloud: March release available on 28/Mar/2023 - release notes

 

• Azure Sentinel log forwarding capability;

 

Cloud: February release available on 08/Feb/2023 - release notes

• New Content pack for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid using FluentBit;
• Search by Timestamp is now available;
  

 

 

VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (formerly CloudHealth)
Cloud: March release 

• Updated UI to reflect product name, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth;
• New Azure VM rightsizing engine;

• Kubernetes Usage Reports for FlexOrgs;
• All discount automation types supported in AWS Cost History;
• Agent support for arm64 processors
• New GCP assets;
• Event base collections for all GCP resources;
  

 

Cloud: February release 

• Kubernetes RightSizing;

•  Azure saving plans support;
• New Azure Policy action;
• New Azure dataset in FlextReports;

 

Bonus !!!

VMware Aria Hub is a new multi-cloud management platform and you can get Free-Tier access to it. just fill out the form;

vRealize Automation 8.8 is approaching it's end of General Support, April 28th. Make sure you upgrade you environment or move to the cloud before that. More details  on the Product Lifecycle matrix.

 

Skyline 3.3 release in February brough several improvements but specially integration with Aria Operations for Logs allowing transfer of support bundles for Aria Logs with Skyline log Assist.

 

Build Tools for VMware Aria is now open-source;