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## PRODUCT OVERVIEW  
JUNE 2024 

VMware Aria Automation brings self-service private cloud capabilities to the VMware Cloud Foundation™ platform, enabling users to consume Kubernetes and other infrastructure resources as a service. IT service providers such as cloud admins can deliver a true cloud experience to developers, DevOps teams, platform engineers, and others to speed innovation while maintaining overall governance and workload lifecycle management.

### Capabilities
Jump-start a modern private cloud with self-service consumption and delivery capabilities on-premises or in a supported public cloud.
- Modern IaaS consumption surface: Offer self-service consumption of Kubernetes and infrastructure resources via the service catalog, API, or Cloud Consumption Interface.
- Policy-based governance: Centrally manage resource access and utilization.
- Infrastructure as code (IaC): Enable GitOps-based iterative development and create cloud-agnostic templates.
- Kubernetes automation: Empower DevOps teams to provision Kubernetes clusters and Supervisor Namespaces themselves.
- Network automation: Provision and create networks on demand. Automate deployment and configuration of NSX objects, security groups, firewalls, and Avi Load Balancers.
- Private AI automation: Automate service setup and provisioning of GPU-driven machine learning workloads using the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA add-on.
- SDDC infrastructure consumption: Enable consumption of VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure objects. Support VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain import.
- Workload lifecycle management: Discover, onboard, and optimally place workloads. Apply changes to deployed resources with day 2 and custom actions.
- Orchestration and extensibility: Apply custom extensibility frameworks.

VMware Aria Automation is available as part of VMware Cloud Foundation. For more information, visit [vmware.com/products/aria-automation](https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation).

### Use Cases
- Self-service private cloud
- DevOps for infrastructure
- Kubernetes automation

### Key Benefits
- Quick time to value with guided setup; resource discovery, onboarding, and organization; provisioning; and Day 2 actions.
- True cloud experience via a private cloud operating model coupled with governance and resource lifecycle management.
- Accelerated innovation with a future-ready platform built on IaC and DevOps principles.

> “With VMware Aria Automation, we’re providing a public cloud-like user experience while maintaining security, compliance, and control. We are a small team, but VMware enables us to offer anything as a service (XaaS).”  
> Philippe Morel  
> Director of IT Operations and Infrastructure  
> EPFL