VMware Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry is a high-performance, high-availability caching layer for VMware Tanzu Platform on Cloud Foundry (Tanzu Platform on Cloud Foundry). Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry offers an in-memory key-value store. It delivers low-latency responses to a large number of concurrent data-access requests.

Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry provides a service broker to create in-memory data clusters on demand. These clusters are dedicated to the Tanzu Platform on Cloud Foundry space and tuned for specific use cases defined by your service plan. Service operators can create multiple plans to support different use cases.

Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry uses VMware Tanzu GemFire. See VMware Tanzu GemFire API Documentation for links to the API for client access to data objects within Tanzu GemFire.

This documentation performs the following functions:

• Describes the features and architecture of Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry
• Provides the Tanzu Platform on Cloud Foundry operator with instructions for installing, configuring, and maintaining Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry
• Provides app developers instructions for choosing a service plan and creating and deleting Tanzu GemFire on Cloud Foundry service instances
• Provides app developers instructions for binding apps