The YugabyteDB on Tanzu Reference Architecture is a modern approach to building, running, and managing business-critical workloads, designed to support flexibility, scale, and resiliency for organizations adopting cloud-native data layers. This reference architecture provides guidance on deploying YugabyteDB on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, covering various deployment options and integrating with VMware SDDC, Backup and Recovery, Monitoring, and Logging. It aims to help developers unlock end-to-end scalability, performance, and resiliency by combining a cloud-native distributed database with a cloud-native application platform.