Redis for TAS version unavailable to download or can't be found in the Broadcom portal

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service

Issue/Introduction

Redis changed its open source licensing model, adopting a restricted license that doesn't allow distribution or embedding of Redis. In this scenario, VMware by Broadcom is replacing Redis with Valkey, which is exactly same as Redis OSS. 

 

Resolution

You can find the product in the support portal under VMware Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry.

An important thing to take into account is that the tile product slug will remain p-redis to support upgrades from previous versions. So when interacting with Tanzu Network API you still need to use p-redis. E.g 

https://network.tanzu.vmware.com/api/v2/products/p-redis/releases/

Or when downloading Valkey using the "om cli" . E.g.

om download-product -p p-redis ...