In the previous article, we learned about what is Anthos and Anthos main components. Today we take a look at Anthos architecture and where can you setup Anthis.
Anthos capabilities
- Hybrid Cloud capability – Running Enterprise workloads which cannot be moved to Cloud can run on On-premise infrastructure with flexibility of accessing services from GCP and migrating workloads to & from GCP
- Multi-Cloud Vendor Support – Running Enterprise workloads across different Cloud providers (AWS, Azure and GCP) in a standard & consistent way through single pane of glass
- Workload Portability across Multi-Clouds – Ease of migrating Kubernetes based workloads from On-Premise or AWS/Azure to GCP
Why Anthos?
The Anthos framework enables decoupling across critical components:
• Infrastructure is decoupled from the applications (via containers and Kubernetes)
• Teams are decoupled from each other (via Kubernetes pods and services)
• Development is decoupled from operations (via service and policy management)
• Security is decoupled from development and operations (via structured policy management)
Setting up Anthos
you can setup your Anthos on different hosting environments.
- Google Cloud: Anthos on Google Cloud is the simplest setup option and offers easy setup via the Anthos UI.
- On-premises: Anthos provides two on-premises installation options: on VMware or on bare metal.
- Other public clouds: Anthos can manage clusters on other public clouds, letting you use consistent cluster management and Anthos features in a multi-cloud or hybrid deployment.
** we will see setting Anthos VMware in a later post
Pre-reqs to setup Anthos
You need to meet the following pre-preqs to have your Anthos setup on any of the chosen hosting environments:
- Anthos subscription
- A Google Cloud Project
- Anthos API enabled
- Register your clusters with GCP project’s environ
What is Environ ?
Environs are a Google Cloud concept for logically organizing clusters and other resources, letting you use and manage multi-cluster capabilities and apply consistent policies across your systems.
An environ provides a way to logically group and normalize kubernetes clusters, making administration of infrastructure easier. Environs can be used in the context of both Anthos and GKE
Joseph Amrith Raj Paturi
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