This documentation describes the Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for Azure.
Overview
The Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for Azure enables platform operators to easily expose services to their developers from any public cloud with a Terraform provider. Cloud Service Broker for Azure is thoroughly extensible, and can expose new services or public clouds through the use of custom brokerpaks. The Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for Azure tile released on VMware Tanzu Network currently supports Azure.
Key Features
Cloud Service Broker for Azure includes the following key features:
- Easily extensible and maintainable: Cloud Service Broker for Azure uses brokerpaks to expose services. If your target public cloud has a Terraform provider, you can provision services through a common interface using standard Cloud Foundry CLI (cf CLI) commands. For more information about brokerpaks, see Brokerpak Introduction in GitHub.
- One common broker for all brokered services: Cloud Service Broker for Azure decouples the service broker functionality from the catalog of services that it exposes.
- CredHub integration out-of-the-box: CredHub encrypts and manages all the secrets associated with your usage of cloud services.
- Community: When you expose a service through a brokerpak, you can make it available to everyone who uses Cloud Service Broker for Azure and vice versa. For more information, see the Brokerpak Introduction in GitHub.
- Service migration through Terraform: Easily migrate existing services through the import feature in Terraform. For more information, see the Terraform documentation.
Product Snapshot
The following table provides version and version-support information about Cloud Service Broker for Azure.
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Tile version | 1.2.3 |
| Release date | February 22, 2022 |
| Software component version | 1.2 |
| Compatible Ops Manager versions | 2.7 and later |
| Compatible VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs version | 2.7 and later |
| Compatible VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs [Windows] version | 2.7 and later |
| IaaS support | Azure |
Requirements
Cloud Service Broker for Azure has the following requirements:
- Access to the console on Azure.
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS for VMs) installed on your platform of choice.
Limitations
Cloud Service Broker for Azure has the following limitations:
- Currently the broker can only be extended to additional IaaS or services by pulling the broker from GitHub. The tiles do not support custom brokerpaks at this time.
- Currently the broker does not support cross-IaaS provisioning of service instances.
Feedback
If you have a feature request, questions, or information about an issue, please open an issue on the cloud-service-broker GitHub repository or post in the #cloud-service-broker-beta Cloud Foundry Slack channel.
