Itential Automation Platform 2020.2 Release
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Itential Automation Platform 2020.2 Release
- 1. Itential Automation Platform 2020.2 New Features & Improvements Alex Degitz Senior Product Manager
- 2. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary IAP 2020.2 Strategy Modern Network Compliance Check if your API-based services are in compliance with your Golden Configuration. Closed-Loop Automations Add event triggers, custom API endpoints, & multiple schedules to your automations. New Automation Experience Quickly build re-usable, easy-to-understand, & fault-tolerant automations with our new Automation Builder. Integrations Take your automation game to the next level by integrating with any OpenAPI or Swagger specified system
- 3. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • New Automation Canvas including icons, comments, new task selection, etc. • Decision task for branching • Tab view within Automation Studio • Input/Output Schema for automations Benefits • Default Error Handling and “happy path” view • Automatic task and transition placement • Annotate automations • Remain in the context of your automation when editing other components Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Automation Experience Parallel Looping in Automations Best Practice Analyzer JSON Forms Improvements Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway New Automation Experience
- 4. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Allows parallel and sequential looping over any array • All loops are executed as child jobs • Full control over incoming and outgoing loop data with JST integration Benefits • Makes automations simpler and more reusable • Significantly increases performance compared to sequential looping • Allows better control of data flow in and out of each loop iteration Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Automation Experience Parallel Looping in Automations Best Practice Analyzer JSON Forms Improvements Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Parallel Looping in Automations
- 5. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Shows tips and guidelines on how to build better automations • Lets all users know early when new/better tasks are available • Guides new users in building successful automations Benefits • Ensures the automations your team builds follow Itential’s best practices • Learn about and use new concepts/tasks before the old ones are even deprecated • Ensures that all automations in your organization are more reusable Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Automation Experience Parallel Looping in Automations Best Practice Analyzer JSON Forms Improvements Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Best Practice Analyzer
- 6. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Added tooltips, minLength maxLength readonly, minRow maxRow, format validation, etc. • Containers and tables collapsible • Text fields have external data bindings Benefits • More ways to let users know what data they should enter in each form field • Added a file upload field to let users add files to automations • More internal and external validation options for user input Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Automation Experience Parallel Looping in Automations Best Practice Analyzer JSON Forms Improvements Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway JSON Forms Improvements
- 7. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Integrate with systems without requiring an adapter • Uses Swagger/OpenAPI specification to build out automation tasks • Task information stored in MongoDB rather than each IAP host Benefits • No IAP restart necessary when adding/changing integrations • Automatically HA aware, no need to touch every IAP in a cluster • Less operational overhead when running and updating IAP Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features Codeless Integration Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Codeless Integration
- 8. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Enhances Golden Configuration to be used with cloud services • Compares the return of any REST API call to a golden configuration • Scheduled compliance reports and notifications Benefits • Easy auditing and compliance checks for all services that use REST API endpoints • Use a hierarchical tree to further specify the Golden Configuration of your services • Use the same tool to manage the compliance of your device configuration and your cloud services Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features Compliance for APIs Improved Configuration Editor Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Compliance for APIs
- 9. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Allows multi-line editing of Golden Configuration • View the native config that will be pushed to your devices in the same window • Native Jinja2 support for all variables Benefits • Significantly reduces the time to build new or edit existing Golden Configurations • Change the severity and compliance settings for multiple lines at once Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features Compliance for APIs Improved Configuration Editor Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Improved Configuration Editor
- 10. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Job Dashboard Automation Catalog: Event- Triggered Automations Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Features • Access automation history metrics for different time periods • Shows average runtime and total amount of automations run • Compares pre- and post-automation times • Shows the average execution time per task Benefits • Provides a unified view of the value IAP brings to any team • Shows the time saved by running IAP automations in total and per use case • Easily locate bottlenecks in your automations by leveraging the average task execution time New Job Dashboard
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- 12. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Set up any number of triggers for your automations: API, Event, Schedule, Manual • Each trigger has its own form/event definition (multiple schedules, etc. possible) • Define your own route and payload to trigger with API call • Use incoming API and Event data to drive automations Benefits • Enable closed-loop automations triggered by any events or webhooks • Easily replace legacy systems by matching their API payload • Full control over an automation from one combined view Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features New Job Dashboard Automation Catalog: Event- Triggered Automations Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Automation Catalog: Event-Triggered Automations
- 13. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Multi-user support, Logging and Auditing capabilities • Native Nornir support • Ansible Collection support • Hashicorp Vault integration Benefits • Use the right tool for the job as IAG integrates with more systems • Run IAG by itself to start adding value to your Ansible / Nornir / Terraform use cases • Install IAG through a docker container or as a service on AWS Marketplace Automation Studio IAP 2020.2 Features Standalone Application Automation Platform Configuration Manager Operations Manager Automation Gateway Standalone Application
- 14. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Ready to Update IAP? ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Update IAP to: • Build better, more reusable automations. • Set up closed-loop automations. • Manage the lifecycle of your multi-cloud services. • Extend your compliance checks to API-enabled services. • Increase the HA and resource management of IAP.
- 15. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Provides a UI to manage the lifecycle of entity instances • An entity can span multiple API- based webservices and device configuration • Check the state of your instance and perform pre-defined or custom operations Benefits • Provides a view of the current state of an entire service across multiple systems • Follows our low-code approach that provides flexibility without the need to code • Easily add more systems to your service to always use the right tool for the job Automation Studio IAP 2021 Strategy Context-driven Jobs API Orchestration Automation Studio
- 16. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Job component available in most applications • Live debug mode for faster development and troubleshooting • Customizable context information for anyone working a job Benefits • First-time or infrequent users can remain in the context of their app • Complete view of all automations related to a certain device / service • Allows more people to use IAP without having to become a power user Automation Studio IAP 2021.1 Strategy Context-driven Jobs API Orchestration Context-driven Jobs
- 17. ©2020 Itential Confidential and Proprietary Features • Provides a UI to manage the lifecycle of entity instances • An entity can span multiple API- based webservices and device configuration • Check the state of your instance and perform pre-defined or custom operations Benefits • Provides a view of the current state of an entire service across multiple systems • Follows our low-code approach that provides flexibility without the need to code • Easily add more systems to your service to always use the right tool for the job Automation Studio IAP 2021.1 Strategy Context-driven Jobs API Orchestration API Orchestration
Editor's Notes
- #10: Notes: Config Validation (dry run) Load Native Config for Devices Add your own device for live status Action Discovery -> run actions