Anthos, the hybrid cloud management platform

In the previous chapter, we deep-dived into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and you should now be familiar with its main concepts. As I mentioned at the end of that chapter, the next level in the abstraction that containers provide would be extending GKE to work in multiple environments.

This is exactly what Anthos (https://cloud.google.com/anthos) does; it provides a consistent development and operations experience whether we are using Anthos on Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, or multiple public clouds:

Figure 7.2 – Anthos architecture diagram

Anthos is an advanced management platform for the quick building and deployment of container-based services and applications.

Some of the key benefits of Anthos are the following:

• Code can be quickly deployed, traffic easily re-configured, and applications automatically scaled while Google takes care of all the underlying infrastructure
• Both code...