HashiCorp Terraform vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

HashiCorp and VMware are both solutions in the Configuration Management category. HashiCorp is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.5, while VMware is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.9. Additionally, 95% of HashiCorp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

VMware Aria Automation and HashiCorp Terraform are both prominent cloud automation solutions. Based on user reviews, HashiCorp Terraform has the upper hand due to its extensive feature set and superior ROI despite VMware's higher satisfaction in support.

Features: VMware Aria Automation is valued for its integration capabilities, comprehensive policy management, and ease of deployment. HashiCorp Terraform offers multi-cloud support, an extensive provider ecosystem, and robust infrastructure automation capabilities.

Room for Improvement: VMware Aria Automation could improve scalability, enhance third-party integrations, and refine cost efficiency. HashiCorp Terraform needs a better user interface, improved state management, and more consistent support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Aria Automation distinguishes itself with smoother deployments and reliable customer service. HashiCorp Terraform, while powerful in deployment, has a steeper learning curve and inconsistent support experiences.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Automation has higher upfront costs but provides value through comprehensive support. HashiCorp Terraform presents better ROI with its open-source model and lower setup costs, although potential investments in training and support may be necessary.

To learn more, read our detailed HashiCorp Terraform vs. VMware Aria Automation Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Microsoft Intune

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Gaurav Chandola

Senior Associate Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 22, 2022

We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy

Intune has many benefits from the Microsoft perspective. This solution can manage Windows 10 devices, app management, and provide security solutions. We don't need to worry about our network connection, and we'll be more secure with regular security patches and compliance. Since everything will be deployed through the internet and users will log in using the internet only, the risks have been mitigated. Security updates, security patching, and the application will be targeted from Intune. The location tracker will be available to track where the device is and the user's location. The user will be restricted from accessing certain applications using compliance policies. Conditional access policies will be based on the reason why the user needs access to the application. Microsoft Intune is one of the best products in the industry for managing Windows devices. The solution has more feature restrictions. The conditional access policies also eliminate the dependency on the on-prem network for the devices. The solution also manages our security settings and a lot of other beneficial features such as Microsoft Purview which gives us the compliance portion. We can manage all aspects of our device from a single console, including M365 services. This allows us to configure data classification types, such as public, private, internal, confidential, and highly confidential.

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Marek Kubovic

Cloud and DevOps Architect at Accenture

Jan 12, 2023

Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments

Our company uses the solution to deploy resources and infrastructure in Azure Cloud via the Azure DevOps pipelines. We have two developers who use the solution. It is easy to recreate an exact duplicate or output of an environment. The solution is much faster than manual deployments. It is…

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NiteshKumar1

Principle consultant at Infosys

Sep 27, 2023

Good stability, supports a hybrid model and easy to use

There is an area of improvement. For example, you are migrating from a customer's existing data center to a new target data center. To facilitate this transition, you'll initially need to evaluate the customer's aging hardware hosting VMware, which is nearing the end of its operational life. The customer expresses the intention to upgrade to a newer version, necessitating an overhaul of everything in the new data center. As a Systems Integrator (SI), consultant, or architect, your recommendation would be to acquire the latest hardware with a specified configuration and then install VMware on top of it. However, there's a crucial aspect related to the infrastructure requirements for VMware to run seamlessly on that hardware. If there's an opportunity to potentially reduce these infrastructure prerequisites, it would be highly beneficial. This is because a higher number of VMware licenses requires more infrastructure capacity from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) or Colocation partners. Consequently, when discussing the operation of this virtualized environment from VMware over a contractual period of five years, the overall cost to the customer is influenced by the infrastructure requirements. If there's a feasible way to decrease these prerequisites for the infrastructure supporting the virtualization layer, it would be advantageous in terms of cost for the customer. Any customer in today's world exists or wants to exist in a hybrid model, so in future releases, we would like to see this. So, going forward, if this virtualized environment would exist, it has to be a combination of on-premise plus public cloud Azure/AWS. It should be more seamless when your interface or when you are interacting with workloads running on-premise VMware/AWS VMware. So it is only there in some capacity and space, and I'm aware of it. And Azure and VMware already have a tie-up on the same lines, but at the same time, if it is more seamless, if it is more interchangeable, if you could move your workloads, or if you can access your workloads or your virtual machines irrespective of whatever platform it is running, whether it is on-premises, or cloud or public cloud, it'll be a lot more comfortable for a user than the user to consume that infrastructure. Firstly, it needs to have a combination of deployment and be more seamless for the customers. Secondly, more software-defined features, more in terms of managing the infrastructure pool in a software-defined way. Managing the infrastructure pool in a more optimized fashion is going to be the key in the upcoming times. It's not just on-premise, but at the same time, it should also be the public cloud as well. Probably because when I meet my customers, this is one thing that I always tell them. I have seen people moving from on-premise public cloud only to realize at the end of the month that they end up paying a higher bill compared to what they were paying when they were running their business on-premise. The reason is that they do not understand or do not realize the full potential of the public cloud, and the way it should be consumed, the way it should be used, and the way it should be scheduled to ensure that the billing at the end of the month is very optimal. You pay for what exactly you need, not everything that you have from the cloud. That's not a way to use the cloud, whether it is on-premise or from the cloud. For example, an enterprise has over 100 applications. Out of that 100 applications, only 25 applications are running the production instances, and the remaining 75 are running non-production instances. It can be a development environment, a test environment, a sandbox, etc. In this case, you need to run only the 25 applications on the public cloud 24/7. You do not need to run your remaining 75 applications 24/7. Because, eventually, your developers, testers, quality managers, and whoever will use the non-production environment only when they're in the office and working on those applications. Then why do we need to have those applications, which are non-production in nature, lower environments? So we're running on the public cloud all the time because, for a cloud provider, it is a virtual machine; whether you are consuming it for production work or non-production work, it is going to charge you the same bill. And if you are not optimizing, if you're not scheduling workloads, you are actually wasting money. You're wasting your money, and your bills, which you are going to pay with the public cloud provider provided, are going to be bad. It's going to be crazy. And then customers do not know what to do in this situation. And you cannot fight with the public cloud provider because they would say, "I had given you all the possibilities, all the opportunities to learn about it, the way you should be functioning it, the way you should be utilizing it. If you are not using it the way it should be used, That's not my problem."

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."

"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."

"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."

"The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application."

"One of the main features of the solution is it allows the management of many devices in different ways."

"What I like most about the tool is that it's now very easy to set up a device for someone to use. It also helps us tremendously in managing security. Before, we used on-premise management with a domain controller. It was difficult to manage security comprehensively. For example, it was hard to know which computers were updated. We weren't able to do that easily with our previous solution."

"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."

"Intune's security features for Apple iOS and Mac OS are helpful. We can check enrollment, manage public and private settings, and manage the organization's data using security key features."

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"This solution makes it easier to manage a multi-cloud environment and have your entire infrastructure as code."

"It is a stable solution."

"Terraform has extensive integrations across various platforms. It includes modules that enhance functionality and support for secure practices, such as Terraform Sentinel, which offers code analysis capabilities."

"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."

"The first thing I like about the solution is that it keeps a version of your infrastructure."

"It's very easy to automate functions on the cloud with HashiCorp Terraform. The commands are easy as well."

"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."

"The state backend, automated describe functionality, modular structures, and variablization using templates are most valuable."

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"vRealize automation stability is pretty good. They are always fixing bugs. The product team is doing a great job of addressing any issues that we might have."

"value; It does a lot of things automatically that would take our group, when we're already strapped for time, a lot of time to go through and clean stuff out of databases and the like."

"Our customers don't have to manage HVAC and space and cooling and all of those things that they used to have to do. Today, all they have to do is provision a server and manage their users."

"To manage when VM's aren't being used, we have it set up so that it will auto-destroy them after a certain amount of time, obviously with permission from the user who owns it."

"The setup was straightforward. We upgraded to a newer version seamlessly. It worked really well."

"The benefits are that it gives you a heads-up display and dashboard of the way everything's running. The ability to automate around those tasks is really where we get the value."

"Upgrades have been extremely simple with their Lifecycle Manager product."

"We have integrated our CICD pipeline into an automatic catalog request through some API calls. It can request and provision new virtual machines behind the NSX load balancer, straight out of the CIDC pipeline and add those nodes to the load balancer, request SSL certs, do SSL termination at the load balancer so that it's not encrypted behind the scenes, all of which has really been helpful."

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Cons

"The solution needs to improve reporting. Sometimes, it shows double or triple entries of the same thing, which affects the count's accuracy. Also, some applications onboarded in Microsoft Intune do not get updated. When we look for solutions online, there is often no clear answer."

"There are a couple of issues with stability."

"If we could remote into a device, it would be great. Currently, we cannot directly connect to the user device. We have to use other tools such as VMware for connecting to devices."

"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."

"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."

"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."

"The mobile management is good for iPhone and iPad, but the Apple Mac management needs improvement. That is probably because Microsoft does not have low-level access to Apple Mac hardware. If you are doing basic things, it is okay, but if you want to image Apple Macs and do things like that, then Jamf is much better."

"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."

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"On occasion, I have noticed a number of bugs in this solution that have needed to be fixed."

"The integration with this solution needs to be improved."

"The price of the solution could improve."

"When a misconfiguration or drift occurs, fixing the issue can be difficult. For instance, if there is a change in API calls while a script is running, it can be challenging to make corrections. This may require additional review and modifications to the code. I recall an instance where an industry budget creation process was altered, and it took significant time to amend the code. In fact, I had to add five or six different script portions to resolve the issue."

"It should have a more object-oriented approach like different coding languages."

"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."

"Lacks flexibility in common programming languages."

"If you are copying something from a well running machine to a remote machine, there are some issues with the current version, but it is acceptable."

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"The stability needs a lot of work. The troubleshooting component of vRealize is a pain. The administration and the upgrades are not up to the mark. If they were able to improve on that, that would be the best thing and would make it much easier to run it in the enterprise."

"In terms of usability, It has had its challenges. It requires a lot of custom code to integrate into our environment. It can take a little while to get it to do what we want, takes some code instead of having built-in functionality. Part it is how we use it. It would be a lot easier to use in a greenfield scenario versus brownfield, which is the way we using it."

"It would be nice in the next release if they added in tool tips. Whether you're putting it together, adding a blueprint, or you're making a change in the system, highlighting or selecting something and having it tell you what it does or what it will do would be nice. Because it's such a complex system, it's hard to work with unless you've been using it for years to know what everything is doing."

"It is difficult to set up."

"We had a lot of issues at first. Especially with doing any kind of upgrades, it was a complete tear-down and a complete rebuild of all the Blueprints. The upgrade process was not easy or intuitive at all. But it seems to be getting better."

"SaltStack's features are minimal."

"7.5 is not user-friendly, in fact, it's a nightmare. They changed everything on the graphic user interface, the mode where the user interacts with the product."

"The solution could be lighter. As an administrator, I would like to simplify the number of services I need to deploy. They took a significant step in that direction by removing all the Windows dependencies that we had in the past, but there are still a lot of services consuming resources."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required to use the solution. If you're core users in Office 365, for example, you have Outlook email and E3 license, this is only email. You have to buy an EMS license to have Microsoft Intune. It is expensive."

"We work with the subscription rather than a server license. I think it's economical this way because we don't have to have a server license for that, and I think that works in our favor."

"It is not a cheap solution. The price for a device when you start using it at a large scale can be improved. It is covered under our enterprise agreement. We pay once a year. I am not aware of any additional costs."

"Its price is in the medium range. It is acceptable because you're paying for the features. I am not aware of any additional costs."

"Microsoft Intune is moderately priced. There is a monthly license required to use the solution and it is approximately eight dollars per month."

"While Microsoft charges for actual usage, it lacks discount options."

"We don't get Intune as a separate module. Most of the time, we use it within an enterprise agreement like E3 or E5. Those licenses are at a good price, but what is annoying is that every single year they go higher."

"Every customer used to purchase licenses based on their needs."

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"It is an open-source product."

"The setup for Terraform is quite easy and currently, we are using their community version along with Jenkins."

"Terraform is a little expensive."

"I rate the price of HashiCorp Terraform a seven out of ten."

"If you use the solution according to the recommended way by HashiCorp, it is more expensive."

"The product can be cost-effective, especially if you use the CLI and do not require the cloud solutions provided by HashiCorp."

"You can do everything with the free license of this solution."

"There are free and paid versions of the solution. We use the free version."

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"VMware Aria Automation is expensive."

"Customers say this solution is costlier compared to its competitors."

"As far as value is concerned, it has been essential to our environment. We have been able to deploy VMs quickly and the developers have their own sandbox, so they can spin up and destroy VMs at their own will."

"vRealize automation really should be a front door to the whole VMware suite of products."

"This is an expensive product and the high price is starting to become an issue for us."

"I would rate it high because, compared to other solutions, VMware’s pricing is quite expensive. VMware products have become significantly more costly in recent years, leading to higher costs."

"We do plan to see ROI with any new implementation of new technologies being implemented within our environment."

"It is an open-source product."

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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about HashiCorp Terraform?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the modules it offers.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HashiCorp Terraform?

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What needs improvement with HashiCorp Terraform?

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Comparisons

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite, SaltStack

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Overview

Microsoft Intune is a comprehensive cloud-based service that allows you to remotely manage mobile devices and mobile applications without worrying about the security of your organization’s data. Device and app management can be used on company-owned devices as well as personal devices.

In an increasingly mobile workforce, Microsoft Intune keeps your sensitive data safe while on the move. Microsoft Intune makes it possible for your team members to work anywhere using their mobile devices. Microsoft Intune provides both the flexibility and the control needed for securing all your data on the cloud, no matter where the device with the data is located.

Microsoft Intune Device Management Key Features

With Microsoft Intune Device Management you can:

Ensure devices and apps are compliant with your security requirements.
Rapidly deploy and authenticate apps on all company devices.
Remotely access devices to troubleshoot issues or to remove data from them.
Generate reports for all devices in the system.
Monitor the way users access and share information to protect company information.
Set rules and configure settings on personal and organization-owned devices to access data and networks.
Create user groups and device groups, allowing you to rapidly access many users and devices simultaneously.

Mobile Application Management

Mobile application management in Intune is designed to protect your organization’s data at the application level.

With Microsoft Intune Application Management you can:

Configure apps to run with specific settings enabled.
Update existing apps that are already on the device.
See reports on which apps are used and monitor their usage.
Selectively wipe organization data from apps.
Add mobile apps to user groups and devices.

As part of Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite, Intune integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for access control and with Azure Information Protection for data protection. It also integrates with Microsoft 365 Applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Microsoft Intune stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to secure all devices under its management and the flexibility that the solution offers its users.

A computing services manager notes, "Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."

The head of IT engineering at a financial services company writes, "The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types: we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager (MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company details on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."

HashiCorp Terraform is a powerful configuration management solution that aims to provide users with the ability to maximize the ease with which users can perform their configuration management operations. It makes it so that organizations can reliably configure and manage their infrastructure. Terraform is a tool that transforms every user into an administrator and project collaborator. Businesses that use it have at their command a solution that they can use for the entire lifecycle of their infrastructure.

HashiCorp Terraform Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy HashiCorp Terraform include:

Disaster recovery. Terraform provides users with the ability to prevent a catastrophic loss of infrastructure from taking place. It stores the blueprint for the infrastructure in a centralized state file. This central file contains all of the data, resources, and metadata that make up an organization’s infrastructure setup. If their infrastructure is damaged or destroyed this file can be used to reconstitute the infrastructure as it was before the damage was done. Users need never worry that they will lose their infrastructure.

Reduce overhead costs while offering maximum benefit. Terraform is designed so that users can deploy it relatively cheaply while still gaining the maximum level of benefit. It offers users a diverse collection of out-of-the-box modules that users can use and reuse without having to purchase anything else. The solution is also agentless which means that it can be deployed without requiring users to download anything else to make it function.

Flexibility. Terraform is highly flexible. It is a totally platform-agnostic solution. It can be used to manage architecture being run on both physical devices and virtual machines. Users who use cloud environments can utilize it just as effectively as those who are working with physical on-premises servers. This enables users to use whatever system they wish without being beholden to any kind of restrictions.

Remote operation. Terraform can be remotely operated and managed from anywhere in the world. This empowers organizations to operate internationally without worrying that they will somehow be less effective than if they were working from their headquarters.

Self-service infrastructure. Terraform can be operated by many members of an organization. Users can take on some of the responsibilities that would be handled by administrators. They can leverage the ServiceNow Integration to create workspaces, perform Terraform runs, and even order service items. Additionally, users can deploy Configuration Designer to leverage predefined modules in order to handle infrastructure requests themselves.

HashiCorp Terraform Features

Integration suite. Terraform enables users to integrate their systems with it regardless of what kind of infrastructure system they are using. It leverages a wide variety of APIs to empower users to take their workflows and integrate them with Terraform’s powerful management capabilities.

Automation tool. Organizations can leverage Terraform to automate a vast variety of features. One example of a feature that administrators can automate is its system update application. Terraform makes it so that the solution itself is charged with applying updates and the like. This ensures that all operations are performed uniformly and in a manner that is consistent with the infrastructure’s configuration. It also guarantees that the possibility of human error need not be considered.

Collaboration feature. Terraform Cloud makes it simple for users to share their workflows with colleagues. This enables them to efficiently collaborate on whatever project they are working on. Teams that are authorized to work on a particular project will be able to securely cooperate and accomplish their tasks.

Notifications. Terraform offers users the ability to set it so that they receive notifications. The nature of these notifications can vary based on a user’s needs. They can range from notifications about the occurrence of particular events to progress reports concerning operations that the user is running.

Security suite. Terraform comes with a suite of security capabilities that aim to keep users and their infrastructures from being harmed by digital threats. One such capability is a feature that auto-generates short-lived security credentials. This prevents access codes from being leaked or stolen by hackers. The credentials last for a specified period of time and are then deleted from the system. When new credentials are needed they will once again generate a set for the user in question.

Reviews from Real Users

HashiCorp Terraform is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two significant advantages it offers are its ability to help users create deployment pipelines that make the deployment process simple and its ability to recover infrastructure fully should something delete or damage it.

Patryk G., the chief technology officer at Translucent Computing Inc, writes, “Furthermore, Terraform enables the creation of a deployment pipeline using tools, such as Atlantis, which automates the process of scanning and deploying the code. This streamlines the deployment process and adds features, such as auditing, risk management, and security scanning to the deployment process. Terraform provides a more organized and secure way of managing infrastructure, compared to the traditional ad-hoc method.”

Rakib M., the chief technology and strategy officer at the White House, says, “One of the other major features of terraform is its ability to act as a Disaster Recovery tool. Since terraform is an Infrastructure-As-A-Service tool, it can be used as part of the rest of the DR toolset to restore affected infrastructure to its original state without any variation.”

VMware Aria Automation is a cloud management tool that allows companies to simplify their cloud experience through a modern automation platform. The solution is designed to deliver self-service clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based security and infrastructure management. It helps organizations improve IT agility, efficiency, and productivity through its various features.

VMware Aria Automation has multiple use cases that include the following:

Self-service multi-cloud: VMware Aria Automation can be used to deliver consistent self-service consumption. Another use case in this area is for delivering infrastructure across VMware Clouds as well as public clouds.
Multi-cloud governance: The solution can be used to manage cost, performance, networking, configuration, and security at scale for multi-cloud environments. VMware Aria Automation offers all this with an everything-as-code approach.
DevOps for infrastructure: Through VMware Aria Automation, companies can enable a powerful infrastructure as code platform with support for iterative development and infrastructure pipelining.
Kubernetes automation: Users can utilize VMware Aria Automation to automate the management of Kubernetes clusters and namespaces with support for vSphere with Tanzu.
Security operations: VMware Aria Automation facilitates event-driven automation to deliver full-service IT system compliance enforcement and vulnerability remediation.

VMware Aria Automation Features

VMware Aria Automation has various features that allow users to easily perform operations. Some of the solution's capacities include:

VMware Cloud agnostic template: This feature allows organizations to use a single cloud template to deploy with Infrastructure as a Code. Deployment options include VMware Cloud as well as major public cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and more.
Extensibility and customization: This VMware Aria Automation feature allows users to get full extensibility and customization. This can be achieved through Aria Automation Orchestrator, Action-Based Extensibility (ABX), and built-in integrations with common third-party tools.
Self-service multi-cloud: This feature enables users to request and provision infrastructure resources. It can be done across clouds using a unified and consistent Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) consumption layer, idempotent REST API, and self-service catalog.
Centralized policies and governance: VMware Aria Automation offers a feature for users to manage multiple clouds with templatized cloud and policy definition, automated remediation, and cloud environment visibility.
Configuration management: Through this feature of the product, day 1 and 2 control can be achieved for virtualized and cloud environments. This can be done with intuitive configuration automation, compliance enforcement, and vulnerability remediation.
Infrastructure pipelining: Through this feature, organizations can access user-friendly release automation pipelines. They can be specifically tailored for CI/CD in infrastructure use cases.

VMware Aria Automation Benefits

VMware Aria Automation offers its users various benefits. Some of the biggest advantages that the solution brings to companies that utilize it include:

VMware Aria Automation provides faster time to market for companies through offloading manual tasks with advanced workflows and agile templating.
The solution offers high levels of security and control.
This product is suitable for beginners, as it offers a self-service consumption experience for users.
VMware Aria Automation accelerates innovation through Infrastructure as Code and DevOps principles.
The product provides users with flexibility, as it is compatible with the most popular public cloud solutions.
The solution offers fast deployment because of all natively integrated functions.

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Awais J., CTO/CEO at a tech services company, likes VMware Aria Automation because it saves a lot of time, provides more visibility, and has extensive automation capabilities.

An IT consultant at a government rates VMware Aria Automation highly because the product gives you flexibility to analyze and consume resources.

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Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual

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