VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.2 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.11.2 and vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.2.
vRealize Automation 8.11.2
What’s new:
- Upgrade Deprecated Cloud Extensibility Proxy Versions
- As of April 28, all vRealize Automation Cloud Extensibility Proxies on versions 8.3 to 8.8 will be deprecated and no longer supported by VMware. Customers are encouraged to upgrade their extensibility proxy before April 28th 2023. For information on how to upgrade the extensibility proxy, refer to Upgrading a cloud extensibility proxy.
- vRealize Automation API Documentation for some services are now upgraded to OpenAPI 3.0 standard
- vRealize Automation API Documentation for services like Blueprint, Catalog, Deployment and Migration Assistant are now upgraded from OpenAPI 2.0 to OpenAPI 3.0 standard.
- If a new API client library needs to be generated for these services, it is recommended to use to OpenAPI 3.0 standard.
- Day 0 support for Azure disk performance tiers
- vRealize Automation supports Azure performance tiers when provisioning Azure Premium managed disks. In your VMware Cloud Template, you can set the performanceTier property for Azure managed disks to specify the applicable performance tier.
- Ability to upgrade the Salt Master plugin from SaltStack Config
- SaltStack Config now provides the ability to upgrade Master Plugin to the latest version directly from the UI.
- Support for Azure Government Cloud with vRealize Automation
- vRealize Automation now supports Azure for US Government Regions as an endpoint.
See the full release notes here.
vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.2
What’s new:
- The Node.js 14 runtime is now deprecated.
- Starting the 8.11.2 release, vRealize Orchestrator now supports the Node.js 18.14.2 runtime. The Node.js 14 runtime is now deprecated and will be removed from vRealize Orchestrator when that version reaches its End-of-life (EOL).
- It is recommended to review your current scripts and run them with Node.js 18.14.2 going forward.
- You can now configure local or internal repositories for scripting environments.
- Starting with vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.2, you can now provide local repositories for scripting environments that use either Python, Node.js or PowerCLI runtimes. You can use these repositories to download dependencies. After adding custom repositories from the Action Environments page, you can select to download the dependency from the custom repositories when configuring them in the environment definition.
See the full release notes here.