Managing the Hybrid Cloud with Anthos

The previous chapter covered different serverless options for running our code on Google Cloud. If you remember, most of those services were internally implemented using containers.

This chapter will discuss how to choose a cloud provider and what the associated risks of this process are. We will then focus on the potential benefits of using more than one provider, and what challenges this approach can bring to the table.

That will be the perfect time to introduce Anthos, a hybrid-cloud application management platform created by Google that helps us run our applications in multiple environments and with multiple providers.

The chapter will finish with a hands-on exercise, so you can try Anthos yourself and better understand how to make the most of some of its features.

We’ll cover the following main topics in this chapter:

• The pitfalls of choosing a cloud provider
• Anthos, the hybrid-cloud management platform
• A...