RustFS for VMware Tanzu Container Platform

VMware Tanzu is an enterprise Kubernetes container platform for building, running, and managing containerized applications across vSphere, public clouds, and edge environments.

Three reasons customers run RustFS on Tanzu:

• RustFS serves as a consistent storage layer in hybrid cloud or multi-cloud deployment scenarios.
• RustFS is a Kubernetes-native, high-performance product that delivers predictable performance across public cloud, private cloud, and edge environments.
• Running RustFS on Tanzu gives you control over the software stack and the flexibility to avoid cloud lock-in.

RustFS deploys on Tanzu Kubernetes clusters with the official Helm chart, making it easier to operate your own large-scale, multi-tenant object storage as a service. Because RustFS is S3-compatible from the start, applications built for the S3 API run against RustFS on Tanzu without changes.

Prerequisites

Before deploying RustFS on Tanzu, you need:

• A Tanzu Kubernetes cluster with worker nodes sized for your storage workload
• A block-storage StorageClass backed by the vSphere CSI driver (or your infrastructure's CSI driver) for RustFS persistent volumes
• A load balancer for external access, for example NSX Advanced Load Balancer or an ingress controller such as NGINX
• kubectl and Helm configured against your cluster

Deploy RustFS on Tanzu

RustFS is deployed with its official Helm chart; no Operator or CRDs are required. Follow the cloud-native installation guide for the deployment steps.

Common Capabilities

Storage tiering, external load balancing, encryption and built-in KMS, identity management, TLS certificates, OpenTelemetry-based monitoring, and audit logging work the same on every Kubernetes platform. See RustFS on Kubernetes: Common Capabilities.