VMware Tanzu™ GemFire® for Kubernetes Support References
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VMware Tanzu™ GemFire® for Kubernetes Support References

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VMware Tanzu Gemfire

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This KB article provides references to important VMware Tanzu GemFire for Kubernetes related links. This article will be updated whenever any new related references are available.
 

Background

VMware Tanzu GemFire for Kubernetes brings an in-memory key-value store to Kubernetes. Tanzu GemFire is powered by Apache Geode. A Tanzu GemFire cluster is composed of locators and servers. The servers provide a low latency, consistent, fault-tolerant data store. To learn more about cluster architecture, see the documentation for these supported versions of the Tanzu GemFire cluster.
 

Prerequisites and Supported Platforms

Prerequisites

  • A Kubernetes cluster, version 1.16 or a more recent version
  • cert-manager version 1.0.0 or greater installed in your cluster
  • kubectl, a version that works with your Kubernetes cluster
  • helm, version 3 or a more recent version
  • Access to VMware Tanzu Network, to acquire the Helm chart
  • Sufficient memory and CPU capacity in your cluster to accommodate memory and CPU resources you have requested for Tanzu GemFire cluster locators and servers
  • Enough nodes in your Kubernetes cluster to support all of your Tanzu GemFire cluster servers, if you will set the antiAffinityPolicy to a value other than None


Supported Platforms

These Kubernetes platforms support VMware Tanzu GemFire for Kubernetes.

  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)

  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGi)



Environment

Product Version: 1.0

Resolution

Various GemFire on Kubernetes related resources from VMware Tanzu GemFire Team members

Links to Youtube videos from Charlie Black (Sr. R&D product Manager):

 
This video is a walkthrough of installing the first Beta of VMware Tanzu GemFire for Kubernetes. VMware Tanzu GemFire was designed to use a Kubernetes operator.
 
This video shows you how to install VMware Tanzu GemFire Beta 2 on Amazon EKS.
 
This video is a walkthrough of installing the Tanzu GemFire for the Kubernetes operator and also walks through how to create a cluster.
 
This video reviews how to deploy and demo a GemFire enabled Spring Boot Application that uses Spring Caching.
 
This video will cover how to derive the locator’s property for the GemFire application.
 
This video shows how to scale VMware Tanzu GemFire for Kubernetes.


Blog Post from Charlie Black (Sr. R&D product Manager) and Bob Glithero (Sr. Manager, Product Marketing):


Video demo from Geet Rawat (Staff Technical Engineer, GemFire Support Team)

How to install VMware Tanzu™ GemFire® for Kubernetes on GKE Demo

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Video demo from Deepak Kopade (Staff Technical Engineer, GemFire Support Team)

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