Google Changes The Way VMs Are Converted To Containers

Source:-forbes.com

At the recent Cloud Next event held in London, Google made a significant announcement related to several product updates, including their application modernization platform called Anthos and other tools such as Apigee and Cloud Code.

The most attention-grabbing announcement was the company’s reveal of their plans to take Anthos Migrate out of beta and make it generally available to the public. This move could expand Google’s reach outside the cloud and allow additional access into customers’ data centers.

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One of Google’s Most Important Launches

The Anthos platform could easily be one of Google’s most important recent launches due to its popularity and demand. The platform allows users to build new applications, as well as modernize already-existing VM-based workloads and convert them into containers.

Applications native to AWS, Azure, or Google’s Compute Engine can be easily converted and ran in Anthos GKE, the Kubernetes service that’s an important part of the Anthos Migrate platform.

“A lot of the need to do data-driven applications, that’s where Kubernetes has really hit that sweet spot because now you have a number of distributed datasets and you need to put a web or mobile front end on [them],” said Jennifer Lin, Google’s VP of product management. “You can’t do it as a monolithic app, you really do need to tap into a number of datasets — you need to do real-time analytics and then present it through a web or mobile front end. This really is a sweet spot for us.”

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Great Interest in Anthos

Besides announcing the upcoming public release of Anthos, Google also highlighted some other projects along with a number of influential customers that include Turkey’s Denizbank and Germany’s Kaeser Kompressoren.

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They explained the growing interest in Anthos as the primary reason why the platform should be taken out of beta and introduced to the public. According to Jennifer Lin, the platform can bring significant benefits to cloud deployment.

“That really helps customers think about a leapfrog strategy, where they can maintain the existing VMs but benefit from the operational model of Kubernetes,” added Lin. “So even though you may not get all of the benefits of a cloud-native container day one, what you do get is consistency in the operational paradigm.”

Moreover, Google’s spokespersons didn’t fail to mention other thriving products and updates such as the recent general availability of Cloud Code. As Google’s set of extensions for IDEs, Cloud Code plays an important role in helping developers build and debug their cloud-native apps in an easier and more time-efficient manner.

The company also made their Apigee Hybrid generally available, thus solving one of the major development challenges for enterprises in various industries. Apigee Hybrid helps developers manage their APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments as well as deploy them back to Anthos. Overall, Google is moving forward with their successful involvement in application and cloud development.