October 2021

October 2021 release notes for Robot in Automation Cloud.

October 14, 2021

Elastic Robot Orchestration

Support for GCP

For those of you using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we have added support for using this provider for elastic robot orchestration.

GCP is now available as an option in the Settings > Cloud Connections page.

New name for the machine template

The machine template used for elastic robot orchestration has been renamed from Cloud Machine Pool to Elastic Robot Pool.

More control over auto-scaling

We have added a few extra knobs to the Elastic Robot Pool machine template so that, when using auto-scaling (Automatically Create Machines is enabled), you can add specific rules for how and when new machines should be created. Here are the new controls:

• Selecting the new Advanced option for Scheduling lets you set the allocation speed, as well as the number of machines you want to keep in standby and the idle time allowed for machines:

  

• Profile scheduling is a new setting for the machine template which lets you specify exceptions - with a start and end time - during which you want a different scheduling profile to apply for the template:

  

For example, if your machine template uses the Balanced profile, but you know the end of the month is busier than usual, you can add an interval to use the Fast profile during the last 5 days of the month. This way, elastic robot orchestration is faster during this period, then reverts to the original profile set for the machine template - Balanced.

Configuring Profile Scheduling