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| Google Cloud adds microservices management, serverless to its Anthos platform - ZDNet Posted: 16 Sep 2019 07:45 AM PDT Google is building out its Anthos platform to connect microservices and offer fully managed serverless workloads. Anthos is a platform designed to address platform as a service needs for developers as well as hybrid cloud deployments for enterprises. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian outlined Anthos at Google Cloud Next in April and pitched it as a digital transformation platform for enterprises. Jennifer Lin, Product Management Director for Google Cloud, said the platform is gaining momentum among early adopters and customers in banking see Anthos as a way to standardize their Kubernetes environments. "We are modernizing them in place," said Lin, who noted that some sectors can't move data to the cloud due to regulations. Anthos is a way to bring Google Cloud's scale to their internal clouds. Cloud Run brings enterprise workloads to serverless | Top providers 2019: A multi-cloud spin | Cloud providers: A buyer's guide | Google Cloud Next: Everything you need to know about the new strategy Add it up and Anthos is quickly being built out. Lin said the platform is aimed at three stakeholders in the cloud process: Developers, cloud service administrators and IT execs who are looking to modernize infrastructure. Google Cloud isn't disclosing customer numbers for Anthos, but the focus is on building a beachhead of use cases and partners. Anthos has more than 40 partners including integrators, software and hardware firms. At launch, Anthos had 30 partners. Lin added that Anthos Service Mesh, the microservices platform, is critical to orchestrating workloads.  Anthos Service Mesh, which is in beta, is designed to connect, secure, monitor and manage microservices. Anthos Service Mesh is built on Istio application programming interfaces and features one administrative dashboard to track application traffic. Google Cloud Platform: An insider's guide (TechRepublic download) | Vendor comparison: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud (Tech Pro Research) The other key addition to Anthos is Cloud Run, also in beta. Cloud Run for Anthos is a managed service for serverless computing. The ability to run Anthos in a serverless state means developers can write code on Knative without advanced Kubernetes knowledge. Cloud Run for Anthos can run workloads on Google Cloud on on-premises. In addition, Anthos added automation and organization specific policies to Anthos Config Management and Binary Authorization to ensure that only verified images are integrated into the application build process. More multicloud:  |
| Google Extends Scope of Anthos Cloud Platform - Container Journal Posted: 16 Sep 2019 11:00 PM PDT Google this week extended its campaign to establish Anthos as a hybrid cloud computing platform by adding support for a serverless computing framework along with an instance of the Istio service mesh Google helped develop. Based on Kubernetes, Anthos is a cloud platform that can be deployed on any public cloud or on-premises IT environment. Pali Bhat, vice president of product and design for Google Cloud, says Anthos is different from other managed cloud services in that organizations have the option of relying on Google to manage the entire DevOps life cycle or continuing to manage the IT environment themselves. Google is pursuing this approach to make it easier to meet organizations wherever they are on the IT modernization curve, he says. As part of that effort, Bhat says Google is taking pains to integrate Anthos with as many third-party tools as possible to allow IT organizations to manage Anthos from within any set of DevOps or IT service management tools they prefer. To help organizations move down that maturity curve faster, Google is also now moving to bake observability tools into its core platform rather than requiring organizations to pay separately for those capabilities. For example, Anthos Service Mesh comes with tools that enable IT teams to track application service levels between every connected microservice in the environment.
Finally, Google also has extended its Anthos Config Management tools to include a Binary Authorization tool, which ensures only validated, verified images are integrated are included within a managed DevOps process. Bhat says Google is taking a pragmatic approach to monolithic and cloud-native applications, enabling organizations to deploy both on Google Cloud side by side while determining how much (if ever) they want to employ microservices to rewrite a monolithic application. The same approach also applies to DevOps. Bhat says oranizations can either embrace DevOps on their own or rely on Google to provide a DevOps experience in a way that doesn't force organizations to make a transition. Instead, the entire DevOps process comes hidden within the context of an automated set of cloud services, he says, noting that, alternatively, some organizations may not decide to embrace DevOps at all. Google clearly views Anthos as the cornerstone of a hybrid cloud computing strategy that will enable it to make up much of the ground it has lost to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft in terms of cloud market share. It's not clear how much Anthos will enable Google to close that large gap. It's worth noting, however, that Anthos does present an opportunity to centralize the management of DevOps across multiple clouds without forcing organizations onto a proprietary platform. Naturally, it may be a while before most organizations are mixing and matching hybrid cloud services at will. Most organizations would like to have that capability, as long as it's easy to achieve.  |
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