See the new features and improvements for the Itential Automation Platform 2020.1 release.

1. Itential Automation Platform 2020.1
New Features & Improvements

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IAP 2020.1 Overview & Benefits
Extended Capabilities
Policy Manager and Terraform widen the
scope of built-in automation functions
Accelerate Automation Use Cases
New Automation Engine easily manages all
automation components and runs up to
5x faster with Pre-Built Automations
Build Better Automations
Transformations allow users to
build automations with fewer task
and more re-usability
Flexibility
Most improvements allow for more
configurable automations & dynamic
decisions at runtime

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IAP 2020.1 Feature Overview
• New renderJSON task
• Transformations
• Reduced automation runtime
• Change automations with running jobs
• Event System improvements
• Admin Essentials + Pre-Built Automations
• Influence broker behavior
• Improved Automation Gateway discovery
• Terraform integration
• Policy Manager

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Render JSON Schema task
• Allows to dynamically render
forms based on any given JSON
Schema
• Form data can be passed in
• Dependencies
• Dynamic validations
• Widgets
Benefits
• More flexible way to build custom
forms
• Allows automation designers to
fully customize forms without
writing custom code
New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Transformations
• Create re-usable JSON Schema
Transformations to use in IAP
• Enhance API responses to match
your schema
• Data manipulations and functions
(map, reduce, filter) can be added
Benefits
• Dramatically simplifies
automations by removing the
need for any data & query tasks
• Will significantly reduce the need
for custom tasks/apps
• Shippable with Pre-Built
Automations

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Reduced Automation Runtimes
• Replaced MongoDB task queueing
with RabbitMQ channels
• A list of next tasks to work is
maintained for each IAP server
• Next task can be worked
immediately
Benefits
• Reduced runtime of production
automations of up to 80%
• Reduces the query load to
MongoDB
Automation Platform 1 Automation Platform 3
Automation Platform 2

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Change Running Automations
• Make changes to an automation
without affecting active jobs
• Visualize the automation canvas in
Job Manager
• Faster development of new
automations
Benefits
• Reduced runtime of production
automations of up to 80%
• Reduces the query load to
MongoDB

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Event System Improvements
• Pass in job variables to specify
events
• Events emitted by jobs
• Any change in job status triggers
an event
• Any app or automation can
subscribe to these events
Benefits
• Increased flexibility of using events
in automations
• Dynamically define which event
triggers an automation

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Pre-Built Automations
• Admin Essentials application to
manage Pre-Built Automations
• Preview automations before
installation
• Easily manage all components
within a Pre-Built Automation
Benefits
• Rapidly automate common tasks
• Packaged, production-ready use
cases
• Open sourced and self-contained

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Influence Broker Behavior
• Configure preferences or
exclusions for which system to use
when performing actions on a
device
• Select different systems for
different calls
Benefits
• Customize device broker
• Allows more options for
troubleshooting connection issues
• Specify which system to use based
on your environment
Automation Platform
Router/Switch
Automation Gateway 2

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
IAG Manager
• New headless application to
broker between all available IAG
components
• Deduplicates Playbooks / Scripts,
etc.
• Implements device broker to find
the correct IAG to send a
command to
Benefits
• Find correct IAG at automation
runtime, rather than design time
• Uses device information from
device broker to find best route to
call
• Allows IAG components to be
shipped within Pre-Built
Automations
Automation Platform
Router/Switch
Automation Gateway 2Automation Gateway 1
Router/Switch
IAG Manager

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Terraform Integration
• Execute Terraform operations
within the UI of Automation
Gateway
• Include Terraform Plans as tasks in
your automation
• Role-Based Access Control to all
Terraform Plans through IAP
Benefits
• Take the next step in your
automation process by executing
Terraform Plans within your
automations
• API-enable your Terraform Plans
behind a robust RBAC system

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New Render JSON Task
Transformations
Reduced Automation
Runtime
Change Automations
with Running Jobs
Event System
Improvements
Admin Essentials à
Pre-built Automations
Influence Broker Behavior
Improved IAG Discovery
Terraform Integration
Policy Manager
IAP 2020.1 Features
Policy Manager
• Manage generic policies of routers
and firewalls
• Discover and import all existing
policies
• Optimize policies and flag
overlapping subnets and
shadowed/redundant rules
• Show dry-run before any device
change is made - allows out-of-
band changes
Benefits
• One generic policy schema – No
device-specific knowledge
required
• Translate policies between all
supported device types

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Why Update to IAP 2020.1?
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• Increase speed of automation run time
• Leverage Itential’s out of the box Pre-Built Automations to
accelerate your automation use cases
• Leverage customizable forms for your current and future use
cases
• Update and create automations that are re-usable with less
tasks
• Integrate Terraform Plans into your automations for a full
end-to-end process

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IAP 2020.1 Resources
2020.1 Documentation >
2020.1 Showcase Videos >
Itential Developer Hub >
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