Multi-cloud support

Notably for public cloud users, Google made Anthos multi-cloudsupport for AWS generally available. AWS cloud users can run and manage applications with Anthos Config Management. Google also announced preview support for Anthos on Microsoft Azure.

IT teams can use Anthos Config Management to consolidate container administration under one service. This improves operational efficiency and reliability via programmatic, declarative policies that automate cluster deployment and minimize manual configuration errors.

Anthos Config Management now supports the following six environments:

1. Google Cloud containers on Google Kubernetes Engine and VMs;
2. on-premises VMware vSphere clusters;
3. on-premises bare metal servers;
4. AWS containers;
5. Azure containers; and
6. Anthos attached clusters.

The attached clusters extend Anthos features such as Config Management and Service Mesh to non-native Kubernetes environments. Attached clusters include existing on-premises clusters, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine or OpenShift Container Platform Kubernetes clusters.

Additional Anthos features and updates

Beyond support for other clouds, there are other Anthos updates to note.

Google expanded Migrate for Anthos support for Amazon cloud services including Amazon S3 data sources, projects, Amazon VPCs, AWS Identity and Access Management controls and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. Migrate for Anthos can also now handle HTTPS proxies to access external image repos and services.

Anthos also added support for event triggers inGoogle Cloud Run. This includes events from more than 60 Google services including Cloud Storage, Cloud Scheduler, Pub/Sub and Audit logs.

Google launched an Anthos Developer Sandbox that packages the tools required to code, debug and test applications on an Anthos environment. The Anthos Developer Sandbox consists of the Cloud Shell Editor and browser-based Eclipse IDE, Cloud Code IDE add-ons for containerized applications and Cloud Build Local runtime environment.

Google also expanded its program forhardware partners that can build configurations verified on Anthos. The Anthos Ready Partner Initiative now includes Atos, Dell Technologies, Equinix Metal, HPE, Intel, NetApp, Nutanix, Nvidia, Pure Storage and Robin.io.

Other features and improvements to the Anthos platform include:

• on-premises support for the Speech-to-Text service to maintain local control over speech data;
• an Anthos Identity Service that supports OpenID Connect;
• Anthos Security Blueprints, which encapsulate Google's best practices for auditing, monitoring, locality and policy enforcement;
• support forGreenLake,HPE's managed, usage-based private cloud infrastructure; and
• support for Terraform to automate the setup of Anthos Service Mesh clusters.