How do you get started with Automation Assembler using the Guided Setup
Automation Assembler
using the Guided SetupTo set up and verify your
Automation Assembler
instance, you configure the infrastructure based on the cloud
accounts, and then you create and deploy cloud templates to ensure that everything is
flowing through the system. - Log in as a cloud administrator.
- Verify that you have the credentials required to connect to the cloud account. If you have an Amazon Web Services account, consider using those credentials. See Before you begin with VMware Aria Automation for details.
This use case helps you, a cloud
administrator, through your first time using
Automation Assembler
. You add an Amazon Web Services cloud account and
configure the infrastructure related to that account. The infrastructure consists of
a cloud account region, a project to link users to the region, and some size and
image mapping that you use at deployment time. To test the infrastructure, you next
create and deploy a simple cloud template. 
To help you with this getting started
process, the instructions are available as a Guided Setup in the user interface.
The first time that you log in to
Automation Assembler
, you might encounter the
Guided Setup Diagram. The diagram illustrates how the components that you configure
process a cloud template at request time. Click Continue
and
configure your cloud account. - Open theGuided Setup.
- ClickGuided Setupon the tab bar.
- In the support panel, clickGuided Setup Overview.The Guided Setup is contextually sensitive to the page that you are on in the user interface. The initial Guided Setup topic that opens depends on the page you are on in the user interface. The link to the Guided Setup overview is at the top of each getting started topic.
- In the step list, clickCreate Cloud Accountto begin.The guided opens the cloud account topic and opens the page in the UI.
Use the information in the support panel and the provided workflow to set up your infrastructure, create a cloud template, and deploy the template. - Add a cloud account.
- Create a cloud zone for one of your Amazon Web Services regions.
- Create a project with users and the cloud zone.
- Create asmallflavor mapping.
- Create anubuntu-16image mapping.
- Create a simple template that deploys a small machine with the ubuntu-16 operating system.
- Check on your deployed cloud template.