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At the recent Cloud Next conference, Google announced the general availability of Anthos, a hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise platform.
Although more than 100 announcements were made during the event, Anthos stands out for the apparent reason. It marks the official entry of Google in the data center of the company. It is one of the first official multi-cloud platforms of a traditional public cloud provider.
From Sundar Pichai to Thomas Kurian, to Urs, we talked about Anthos as a new generation technology. It's obvious that Google's top management team is proud of Anthos.
Anthos is different from other public cloud services. It's not just a product, but an umbrella brand for multiple services aligned with the themes of application modernization, cloud migration, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud management.
Despite the extensive coverage of Google Cloud Next and of course the general availability, the announcement of Anthos was confusing. Documentation is scarce and the service is not fully integrated with the self-service console. With the exception of hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud application deployment, this new technology from Google is little known.
Here is an attempt to provide a big picture of Anthos.
Building blocks
At the heart of Anthos is the most popular open source project of our time, Kubernetes. Anthos is built on the solid foundation of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the managed container offering as a service offering on the Google Cloud platform. But other vital technologies increase the power of Kubernetes.
Let's take a closer look at the fundamentals of Anthos:
1) Google Kubernetes Engine – This is the command and control center of Anthos. Customers use the GKE Control Plan to manage the distributed infrastructure running in the cloud, the on-premises data center, and other Google cloud platforms.
2) GKE Onsite – Google provides a Kubernetes-based software platform compatible with GKE. Customers can deploy it on any compatible hardware and Google will manage the platform. From upgrading the Kubernetes version to applying the latest patches, Google will treat it as a logical extension of GKE. It is important to note that GKE On-prem runs as a virtual appliance on VMware vSphere 6.5. Support for other hypervisors such as Hyper-V and KVM works.
3) Istio – This technology allows the management of federated networks across the platform. Istio acts as a service mesh linking various components of applications deployed on the data center, the GCP and other clouds. It seamlessly integrates with software-defined networks, such as VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and, of course, Google's own Andromeda. Customers who have already invested in network equipment such as F5 can integrate Istio with load balancers and firewalls.
4) Velostrata – Google acquired this migration technology in the cloud in 2018 to increase it for Kubernetes. Velostrata offers two important features: streaming physical / virtual machines on site to create replicas in GCE instances and convert existing virtual machines into Kubernetes (Pods) applications. This is the industry's first physical migration tool to Kubernetes (P2K), created by Google. This feature is available under Anthos Migrate, which is still in beta.
5) Anthos Config Management – Kubernetes is an extensible and rules-based platform. Because Anthos customers will be facing multiple Kubernetes deployments in a variety of environments, Google is trying to simplify configuration management via Anthos. Anthos Config Management can manage and apply the configuration to one or more clusters from deployment artifacts, configuration settings, network policies, secrets, and pbadwords. Think of this technology as a secure, version-controlled central repository of everything about rules and configuration.
6) Stackdriver – Stackdriver brings observability to Anthos infrastructure and applications. Customers can track the status of clusters running in Anthos as well as the health of the applications deployed in each managed cluster. It acts as a centralized monitoring, logging, tracing and observability platform.
7) GCP Cloud Interconnect – No hybrid cloud platform is complete without high speed connectivity between the enterprise data center and the cloud infrastructure. The cloud interconnection can offer speeds of up to 100 Gbps while connecting the data center to the cloud. Customers can also use the telecommunication networks offered by Equinix, NTT Communications, Softbank and others to extend their data center to GCP.
8) GCP Marketplace – Google has created an organized list of ISV and open source applications that can run on Kubernetes. Customers can deploy applications such as the Cbadandra database and GitLab in Anthos with the installer in one click. In the end, Google can offer a private catalog of applications managed by the internal IT department.
Google's product management team did a great job stacking up Anthos services.
Applications from Greenfield vs. Brownfield
The central theme of Anthos is the modernization of applications. Google envisions a future where all business applications will run on Kubernetes. To this end, he has invested in technologies such as Velostrata, which are in-place upgrades of virtual machines to containers.
Google has created a plug-in for VMware vRealize to convert existing virtual machines to Kubernetes Pods. Even stateful workloads such as PostgreSQL and MySQL can be migrated and deployed as StatefulSets in Kubernetes.
In the typical Google style, the company minimizes the migration of on-premises virtual machines to cloud-based virtual machines. But the original offer of Velostrata was entirely focused on virtual machines. Customers running traditional business applications such as SAP, Oracle Financials, and Peoplesoft can continue to run them on on-premises virtual machines or choose to migrate them to Compute Engine virtual machines. Anthos can technically provide interoperability between virtual machines and containerized applications running in Kubernetes.
With Anthos, Google wants to use all of your contemporary microservice applications (greenfield) in Kubernetes when migrating existing virtual machines (brownfields) to containers. Applications running in an architecture other than x86 and legacy applications will continue to run on physical or virtual machines.
General partnership with industry
Google is often criticized for its lack of collaboration and partnership with other players in the sector. With the ambition to beat Microsoft and Amazon, Google is ready to work with industry players established in the ecosystem. This move will undoubtedly help Google to position itself as a business player.
To succeed with Anthos, Google will have to put pressure on already established companies. It attacks the same partners who work hand in hand with Microsoft and Amazon to provide a hybrid cloud.
Cisco extends HyperFlex, ACI, SD-WAN and Stealthwatch Cloud technologies to Anthos to deliver proven, software-defined network capabilities. VMware adds Anthos support for VeloCloud's PKS (Pivotal Kubernetes Service) and SD-WAN service. It also integrates its popular SDN, NSX, with Istio operating in Anthos.
Anthos participated in this launch with more than a dozen independent publishers. From Citrix to NetApp to MongoDB, many platform providers are integrating their software with Anthos.
Kubernetes Landgrab from Google
As the founder of Kubernetes, Google knows something about container management. When Docker started to seduce the developers, Google understood that it was the best time to release Kubernetes in the wild. In addition, the company quickly offers the industry's first managed Kubernetes in the public cloud. Although there are more than a dozen Kubernetes deals managed, GKE remains the best platform for running microservices.
With a deep understanding of Kubernetes and the substantial investments it has made, Google wants to claim its potential in the new world of containers and microservices. The company wants companies to move virtual machines to Kubernetes to run their modern applications.
Anthos is a bold Google initiative. It takes a calculated risk by moving away from the cliché cliché of the hybrid cloud that its competitors use to attract businesses. Anthos should be compared to Microsoft Azure Stack and the AWS Hybrid Story consisting of VMware and Outposts. The fundamental difference between Google and the rest lies in the technological base firmly anchored in containers and Kubernetes.
Google wants to capitalize on its leading position in the native ecosystem of Kubernetes and the cloud. It was very fast to develop a business strategy around Kubernetes. With Anthos, Google aims to become the VMware of the container ecosystem. This is precisely what VMware has done to deploy its hypervisor and software-defined infrastructure in the enterprise.
But Microsoft is also investing heavily in containers and Kubernetes. It blurs the border between Azure and Azure Stack by delivering its flagship public cloud services to the private cloud. Microsoft can reproduce the Anthos track with its Azure Kubernetes service. It will be interesting to see what Redmond wants to do with Kubernetes on Azure Stack.
If everything goes in Google's favor, Anthos will eventually become the preferred platform for managing the company's workloads.
Statement on the state of readiness of companies
The staging of Cisco and VMware executives with Thomas Kurian was a statement from Google stating that they were now ready for the company. This certainly increases the trust of corporate clients who wish to invest in GCP and Anthos.
Kubernetes is perceived as a very technical and attractive geek platform for developers and operators. With Anthos, Google is ready to change the perception of Kubernetes. It has transformed the platform into a viable, reliable and enterprise-grade hybrid cloud platform.
With Thomas Kurian at the helm, Google is focusing on the business. While it relies on partnerships and continues to collaborate with key industry players, Google is ready to shake the business infrastructure market with Anthos.
Great opportunity for the native cloud ecosystem
Anthos increases the confidence of the native ecosystem of the cloud. As I mentioned earlier, Google is trying to become the VMware of Kubernetes. However, the market dynamics are very different from when VMware established itself as the company's leader.
The most significant difference is the open source software. Google is competing in an environment where the software is no longer the key differentiator.
To succeed with Anthos, Google must rely on the community and the ecosystem. This opens up new opportunities for emerging companies that offer niche products that complement the cloud computing stack. Startups such as Tigera, Portworx, Robin, Confluent, Cloudbees will benefit enormously from the promotion of Anthos.
Service Providers and System Integrators Are Preparing to Seize the Anthos Opportunity. From small local players to global ISs such as Accenture and Cognizant, Google's hybrid push is delivering a multi-million dollar service opportunity.
With Google evangelizing and selling Kubernetes to businesses, many emerging start-ups will be riding the wave to push their agenda to the business.
Google's big gamble on Anthos will benefit the industry, the open source community and the native cloud ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of & nbsp; Kubernetes.
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At the recent Cloud Next conference, Google announced the general availability of Anthos, a hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise platform.
Although more than 100 announcements were made during the event, Anthos stands out for the apparent reason. It marks the official entry of Google in the data center of the company. It is one of the first official multi-cloud platforms of a traditional public cloud provider.
From Sundar Pichai to Thomas Kurian to Urs Hölzle, Anthos was considered the next-generation technology. It's obvious that Google's top management team is proud of Anthos.
Sundar Pichai, CEO
Anthos is different from other public cloud services. It's not just a product, but an umbrella brand for multiple services aligned with the themes of application modernization, cloud migration, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud management.
Despite the extensive coverage of Google Cloud Next and of course the general availability, the announcement of Anthos was confusing. Documentation is scarce and the service is not fully integrated with the self-service console. With the exception of hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud application deployment, this new technology from Google is little known.
Here is an attempt to provide a big picture of Anthos.
Building blocks
At the heart of Anthos is the most popular open source project of our time, Kubernetes. Anthos is built on the solid foundation of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the managed container offering as a service offering on the Google Cloud platform. But other vital technologies increase the power of Kubernetes.
Let's take a closer look at the fundamentals of Anthos:
1) Google Kubernetes Engine – This is the command and control center of Anthos. Customers use the GKE Control Plan to manage the distributed infrastructure running in the cloud, the on-premises data center, and other Google cloud platforms.
2) GKE Onsite – Google provides a Kubernetes-based software platform compatible with GKE. Customers can deploy it on any compatible hardware and Google will manage the platform. From upgrading the Kubernetes version to applying the latest patches, Google will treat it as a logical extension of GKE. It is important to note that GKE On-prem runs as a virtual appliance on VMware vSphere 6.5. Support for other hypervisors such as Hyper-V and KVM works.
3) Istio – This technology allows the management of federated networks across the platform. Istio acts as a service mesh linking various components of applications deployed on the data center, the GCP and other clouds. It seamlessly integrates with software-defined networks, such as VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and, of course, Google's own Andromeda. Customers who have already invested in network equipment such as F5 can integrate Istio with load balancers and firewalls.
4) Velostrata – Google acquired this migration technology in the cloud in 2018 to increase it for Kubernetes. Velostrata offers two important features: streaming physical / virtual machines on site to create replicas in GCE instances and convert existing virtual machines into Kubernetes (Pods) applications. This is the industry's first physical migration tool to Kubernetes (P2K), created by Google. This feature is available under Anthos Migrate, which is still in beta.
5) Anthos Config Management – Kubernetes is an extensible and rules-based platform. Because Anthos customers will be facing multiple Kubernetes deployments in a variety of environments, Google is trying to simplify configuration management via Anthos. Anthos Config Management can manage and apply the configuration to one or more clusters from deployment artifacts, configuration settings, network policies, secrets, and pbadwords. Think of this technology as a secure, version-controlled central repository of everything about rules and configuration.
6) Stackdriver – Stackdriver brings observability to Anthos infrastructure and applications. Customers can track the status of clusters running in Anthos as well as the health of the applications deployed in each managed cluster. It acts as a centralized monitoring, logging, tracing and observability platform.
7) GCP Cloud Interconnect – No hybrid cloud platform is complete without high speed connectivity between the enterprise data center and the cloud infrastructure. The cloud interconnection can offer speeds of up to 100 Gbps while connecting the data center to the cloud. Customers can also use the telecommunication networks offered by Equinix, NTT Communications, Softbank and others to extend their data center to GCP.
8) GCP Marketplace – Google has created an organized list of ISV and open source applications that can run on Kubernetes. Customers can deploy applications such as the Cbadandra database and GitLab in Anthos with the installer in one click. In the end, Google can offer a private catalog of applications managed by the internal IT department.
Google's product management team did a great job stacking up Anthos services.
Applications from Greenfield vs. Brownfield
The central theme of Anthos is the modernization of applications. Google envisions a future where all business applications will run on Kubernetes. To this end, he has invested in technologies such as Velostrata, which are in-place upgrades of virtual machines to containers.
Google has created a plug-in for VMware vRealize to convert existing virtual machines to Kubernetes Pods. Even stateful workloads such as PostgreSQL and MySQL can be migrated and deployed as StatefulSets in Kubernetes.
In the typical Google style, the company minimizes the migration of on-premises virtual machines to cloud-based virtual machines. But the original offer of Velostrata was entirely focused on virtual machines. Customers running traditional business applications such as SAP, Oracle Financials, and Peoplesoft can continue to run them on on-premises virtual machines or choose to migrate them to Compute Engine virtual machines. Anthos can technically provide interoperability between virtual machines and containerized applications running in Kubernetes.
With Anthos, Google wants to use all of your contemporary microservice applications (greenfield) in Kubernetes when migrating existing virtual machines (brownfields) to containers. Applications running in an architecture other than x86 and legacy applications will continue to run on physical or virtual machines.
General partnership with industry
Google is often criticized for its lack of collaboration and partnership with other players in the sector. With the ambition to beat Microsoft and Amazon, Google is ready to work with industry players established in the ecosystem. This move will undoubtedly help Google to position itself as a business player.
To succeed with Anthos, Google will have to put pressure on already established companies. It attacks the same partners who work hand in hand with Microsoft and Amazon to provide a hybrid cloud.
Cisco extends HyperFlex, ACI, SD-WAN and Stealthwatch Cloud technologies to Anthos to deliver proven, software-defined network capabilities. VMware adds Anthos support for VeloCloud's PKS (Pivotal Kubernetes Service) and SD-WAN service. It also integrates its popular SDN, NSX, with Istio operating in Anthos.
Anthos participated in this launch with more than a dozen independent publishers. From Citrix to NetApp to MongoDB, many platform providers are integrating their software with Anthos.
Kubernetes Landgrab from Google
As the founder of Kubernetes, Google knows something about container management. When Docker started to seduce the developers, Google understood that it was the best time to release Kubernetes in the wild. In addition, the company quickly offers the industry's first managed Kubernetes in the public cloud. Although there are more than a dozen Kubernetes deals managed, GKE remains the best platform for running microservices.
With a deep understanding of Kubernetes and the substantial investments it has made, Google wants to claim its potential in the new world of containers and microservices. The company wants companies to move virtual machines to Kubernetes to run their modern applications.
Anthos is a bold Google initiative. It takes a calculated risk by moving away from the cliché story of the hybrid cloud that its competitors use to attract businesses. Anthos should be compared to Microsoft Azure Stack and the AWS Hybrid Story consisting of VMware and Outposts. The fundamental difference between Google and the rest lies in the technological base firmly anchored in containers and Kubernetes.
Google wants to capitalize on its leading position in the native ecosystem of Kubernetes and the cloud. It was very fast to develop a business strategy around Kubernetes. With Anthos, Google aims to become the VMware of the container ecosystem. This is precisely what VMware has done to deploy its hypervisor and software-defined infrastructure in the enterprise.
But Microsoft is also investing heavily in containers and Kubernetes. It blurs the border between Azure and Azure Stack by delivering its flagship public cloud services to the private cloud. Microsoft can reproduce the Anthos track with its Azure Kubernetes service. It will be interesting to see what Redmond wants to do with Kubernetes on Azure Stack.
If everything goes in Google's favor, Anthos will eventually become the preferred platform for managing the company's workloads.
Statement on the state of readiness of companies
The staging of Cisco and VMware executives with Thomas Kurian was a statement from Google stating that they were now ready for the company. This certainly increases the trust of corporate clients who wish to invest in GCP and Anthos.
Kubernetes is perceived as a very technical and attractive geek platform for developers and operators. With Anthos, Google is ready to change the perception of Kubernetes. It has transformed the platform into a viable, reliable and enterprise-grade hybrid cloud platform.
With Thomas Kurian at the helm, Google is focusing on the business. While it relies on partnerships and continues to collaborate with key industry players, Google is ready to shake the business infrastructure market with Anthos.
Great opportunity for the native cloud ecosystem
Anthos increases the confidence of the native ecosystem of the cloud. As I mentioned earlier, Google is trying to become the VMware of Kubernetes. However, the market dynamics are very different from when VMware established itself as the company's leader.
The most significant difference is the open source software. Google is competing in an environment where the software is no longer the key differentiator.
To succeed with Anthos, Google must rely on the community and the ecosystem. This opens up new opportunities for emerging companies that offer niche products that complement the cloud computing stack. Startups such as Tigera, Portworx, Robin, Confluent, Cloudbees will benefit enormously from the promotion of Anthos.
Service Providers and System Integrators Are Preparing to Seize the Anthos Opportunity. From small local players to global ISs such as Accenture and Cognizant, Google's hybrid push is delivering a multi-million dollar service opportunity.
With Google evangelizing and selling Kubernetes to businesses, many emerging start-ups will be riding the wave to push their agenda to the business.
Google's big gamble on Anthos will benefit the industry, the open source community and the cloud ecosystem by accelerating the adoption of Kubernetes.
