This documentation tells you about Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for GCP.
CautionSome of the Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for GCP tile services are currently in beta and are intended for evaluation and test purposes only. Do not use them in a production environment. Read the documentation for a service to see if it is in beta.
Overview
The Tanzu Cloud Service Broker for GCP enables platform operators to easily expose services to their developers from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. Cloud Service Broker for GCP is thoroughly extensible, and can expose new services or public clouds through the use of custom brokerpaks that rely on OpenTofu providers.
Key Features
Cloud Service Broker for GCP includes the following key features:
- Easily extensible and maintainable: Cloud Service Broker for GCP uses brokerpaks to expose services. If your target public cloud has an OpenTofu provider, you can provision services through a common interface by running 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 GCP decouples the service broker function from the catalog of services that it exposes.
- CredHub integration out-of-the-box: CredHub encrypts and manages all the secrets associated with your use of cloud services.
- Encryption of sensitive fields: CSB can encrypt any sensitive data that are stored in the brokers own database.
- Community: When you expose a service using a brokerpak, you can make it available to everyone who uses Cloud Service Broker for GCP and the reverse.
Product Snapshot
The following table provides version and version-support information about Cloud Service Broker for GCP.
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Tile version | 1.5.3 |
| Release date | June 12, 2024 |
| Software component version | 1.5.3 |
| Compatible Tanzu Operations Manager versions | 2.10.33 and later |
| Compatible VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs version | 2.11 and later |
| Compatible VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs [Windows] version | 2.11 and later |
| IaaS support | GCP |
Requirements
Cloud Service Broker for GCP has the following requirements:
- Access to the GCP Console.
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS for VMs) installed on your platform of choice.
Limitations
Cloud Service Broker for GCP has the following limitations:
- Currently the broker can only be extended to additional IaaS or services by pulling the broker from GitHub. The tile do not support custom brokerpaks at this time.
Feedback
If you have a feature request, questions, or information about an issue, please:
- Open an issue on the cloud-service-broker or gcp-brokerpak GitHub repository
- Post in the #cloudservicebroker Cloud Foundry Slack channel.
