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title: Solace Messaging for Pivotal Cloud Foundry
owner: Partners
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Solace Messaging for PCF enables developers to take advantage of the leading multi-cloud, multi-protocol messaging solution which makes application inter-connectivity easy and makes production applications scalable, robust, high-performant, and easy to manage.  

Solace Messaging was designed to be deployed across all your IT environments including your non-cloud datacenter, all leading public clouds ([AWS](http://dev.solace.com/clouds/amazon-web-services/), [Azure](http://dev.solace.com/clouds/azure/) and [Google Cloud Platform](http://dev.solace.com/clouds/google-cloud/)) and the popular Platform as a Service, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, in order to provide a uniform messaging fabric for all your applications and to connect all your applications no matter where they are deployed.

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Solace Messaging supports all kinds of messaging APIs, QoS, and data streaming as part of one platform across all clouds in a high performance, WAN optimized, easy to manage solution. It's easily deployed in your public and private cloud environments and forms the perfect backbone for single or multi-cloud messaging support of your cloud native micro-services, IoT, big data capture, and next generation digital applications.

Solace Messaging for PCF provides plans for both shared message router instances for cost-effective development as well as a variety of plans for dedicated message routers of varying performance, scale, and high-availability. Together they meet the requirements for a range of robust test and production deployments.

One of the key strengths of Solace Messaging is its [support for many different open transports and protocols](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#multi-service), making Solace message routers ideal data distribution platforms to connect to any application.

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## <a id='getting-started'></a>Getting Started

In addition to the documentation here, there is also a wealth of information on the [Solace Developer Portal](http://dev.solace.com).

### <a id='cloud-operators'></a>Cloud Operators

For cloud operators, the following section shows you how to install and configure Solace Messaging for PCF in your environments.

* [Tile Installation and Configuration](installing.html)

### <a id='developers'></a>Developers

For developers, there are a few resources to help you easily get started with Solace Messaging for PCF. Within this documentation, see the following sections:

* [Service Instances and Bindings](service-instances.html)
* [Solace Messaging Credentials](credentials.html)
* [Managing the Message VPN](managing.html)

There is also simple sample code which shows you how to easily connect to a Solace Messaging Service Instance:

* [Getting Started Examples](http://dev.solace.com/get-started/pcf-tutorials/) with full source code available in [GitHub](https://github.com/SolaceSamples/solace-samples-cloudfoundry-java).
* [Solace Messaging Demo Application](https://github.com/SolaceLabs/sl-cf-solace-messaging-demo)

## <a id='marketplace-plans'></a>PCF Marketplace Plans

Solace Messaging currently offers the following plans to meet the needs of applications.

<table border="1" class="nice">
	<tr>
		<th>Service Plan</th>
		<th>Description</th>
	</tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Shared</td>
    <td>A single Message VPN in a shared Solace Message Router. Useful for light traffic and development. This plan is fully featured but does have a time limited 90-day evaluation period.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Large</td>
    <td>A single message VPN on a dedicated Solace Message Router. This plan is fully featured but does have a time limited 90-day evaluation period.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Community</td>
    <td>A single message VPN on a dedicated Solace Message Router. The plan does not have a time limit but is limited by the features available on the Community Edition VMR.</td>
  <tr>
    <td>Medium-HA</td>
    <td>A single message VPN implemented across 3 medium Solace Message Routers in a highly available configuration. This plan is fully featured but does have a time limited 90-day evaluation period.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Large-HA</td>
    <td>A single message VPN implemented across 3 large Solace Message Routers in a highly available configuration. This plan is fully featured but does have a time limited 90-day evaluation period.</td>
  </tr>
</table>

## <a id='solace-messaging-features'></a>Solace Messaging Features

In addition to easy and natural APIs for your applications, Solace Messaging supports the following key features:

* [Easy integration with 3rd party products](http://dev.solace.com/integration-guides/) such as big data, ESBs, JEE, DataPower, and more.
* [Comprehensive authentication, authorization and encryption](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#security) features to ensure that your infrastructure and information are protected at all times.
* [The most robust data movement infrastructure available today](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#robustness), offering fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
* [Integrated federation and distribution](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#federation) for connectivity between Solace message routers.
* [High performance](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#high-performance) messaging middleware which can cost-effectively meet the needs of any application.
* [Fast, efficient WAN distribution](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#wan-distribution).
* [Simplified operations](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#management-monitoring) with multiple management administration interfaces.
* [Virtualize application groups on a single Solace message router](http://dev.solace.com/tech/#virtualization) with complete message isolation through Solace Message VPNs.


## <a id='architecture'></a>Architecture

Solace Messaging is a Managed Service. The tile deploys the Virtual Message Routers onto PCF's IaaS. The Solace Messaging tile registers a service broker with PCF and exposes its service plans in the PCF Marketplace. The following diagram provides an overview of the product architecture of Solace Messaging for PCF.

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## <a id='snapshot'></a>Product Snapshot

The following table provides version and version-support information about Solace Messaging for PCF.

<table class="nice">
    <th>Element</th>
    <th>Details</th>
    <tr>
        <td>Version</td>
        <td>v1.0.1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Release date</td>
        <td>May 10, 2017</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Solace Virtual Message Router version</td>
        <td>v8.2.0.x</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Compatible Ops Manager version(s)</td>
        <td>v1.8.x, v1.9.x, v1.10.x</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Compatible Elastic Runtime version(s)</td>
        <td>v1.8.x, v1.9.x, v1.10.x</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>IaaS support</td>
        <td>AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, and vSphere</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>IPsec support?</td>
        <td>Yes</td>
    </tr>
</table>

## <a id='limitations'></a>Current Limitations

This version of Solace Messaging for PCF currently has the following limitations:

* No support for client certificate-based authentication
* No support for LDAP and RADIUS-based authentication
* All persistent messages are lost during a tile upgrade

## <a id='feedback'></a>Feedback

Provide any bugs, feature requests, or questions to the [Pivotal Cloud Foundry Feedback](mailto:pivotal-cf-feedback@pivotal.io) list.