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Dell/Google Joint Offerings
PowerScale for
Google Cloud
Data Protection
Services for GCPPowerFlex for Anthos
Latitude
Chromebook
Enterprise
Selling
Motion
Description
Status
Dell Technologies
managed service
connecting with Google
compute. Designed for
high performing and high
value workloads; a GCP
cloud storage play taking
advantage of AI/ML.
A part of Dell’s Cloud
Service provider program
and acquired through
Google Marketplace as a
utility consumption model
A Google Marketplace
sell through. Can also be
a Bring Your License
model fulfilled through
Google Marketplace
Enables on premise
Kubernetes orchestration
and management
connect to any other
public or private cloud
instances
Data Domain Virtual
Edition for GCP
workloads managed with
Networker
Anthos sold separately
(today) but validated and
connected to PowerFlex
platform and FlexOS
operations
Chrome OS on Dell
Latitude combined with
G-Suite
Direct distribution by Dell
Google Cloud
VMware
Engine (GCVE)
Google Cloud Services
for VMware operating
environments on the
Google Cloud Platform
Part of Dell Technologies
Cloud Service Provider
program and available via
Google Marketplace
Available NOWAvailable NOWAvailable Now: BYOL
Marketplace 2H 2020Available NOW Available NOW
Next Generation Google
Anthos
& Dell Technologies
Nima Badiey
Leader – Anthos Partnership Team
John BaconCloud Partner Engineering Lead
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“To go fast, go alone. To go far, go
together”
Anthos Partnership Philosophy
Dell Heroes WebinarNext Generation Google Anthos and Dell TechnologiesDecember 9, 2020
Nima Badiey - Head of Anthos Partnerships
John Bacon - Cloud Partner Engineering Lead
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Google confidential & proprietary
All slides are SHARED UNDER NDA and for discussion purposes only. Please do not screen-shot or share on social media.
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Nima leads the Anthos Partnership team at Google, responsible for
ecosystem strategy, recruitment and go to market success with our
technology, consulting and platform partners. He is a 20+ year veteran of
the computer industry with various leadership, product, marketing, and
operations roles at Pivotal, VMware, Joyent, SixApart, Flickr, Deloitte, Sun
Microsystems and Boeing. Nima is a graduate of Stanford, UC Berkeley
and UCLA with degrees in Engineering and Business.
John is the AppMod lead within the Partner Engineering organization at Google Cloud. He has 10+ years of experience working with cloud technologies from on-premise private clouds to large multi-cloud deployments. He previously held architect and engineering positions at Redapt and Dell. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and currently working on a Masters degree in computer science with a focus on information security.
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Google Scale: Nine products with over one billion users each
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A Leader in Multi-cloud Container Development PlatformsGoogle demonstrated excellent developer and
operator experience across the cloud-native
application lifecycle through powerful DevOps
automations. Forrester has found that customers
value Anthos’ automated cluster lifecycle operations,
control plane management, logging, and policy-driven
security features. Google is the best fit for companies
that want automated cloud- native platform
experience across clouds.
The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms 2020.
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15+ years experience in application orchestration“Secret Sauce” now available as Kubernetes!
July 15K8s 1.0
Jun 14First Github commit for Kube
Public Beta of Solaris Containers
Birth of Borg, 3-4 Google Engineers working to automate cluster management.
20182009 20152012
Work begins to opensource Google’s Borg as Kubernetes
Process Containers launched by Google now known as cgroups and merged with Linux Kernel.
LXC launched, complete Linux container manager
2013Docker launched
GKE on Prem Announced
Gvisor
Knative
Istio 1.0
Istio 0.1
Envoy 1.0
Aug 15GKE GA
Nov 14GKE Alpha
2019
Anthos
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Google has contributed to 2600+ open source projects across 70,000 repos(Chrome, GoLang, Android…)
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We bring Google’s technology and innovation to
companies of every size
We bring two decades of experience using data to solve hard problems
Accelerate every organization'sability to digitally transform and reimagine their business through data-powered innovation
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“The future of applications, and the infrastructure that they run on, is created with containerized microservices, managed through a declarative system with a single control experiencethat uses a service mesh to spans all application locations.”
Google’s point of view on Modernization
Where to start? How can we become “cloud native”?
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On-
prem
Clo
ud
There are multiple paths to modernize
Traditional/legacy apps Cloud-native apps
Rebuild
Move& improve
Improve & move
Lift-and-shiftapps
Lift-and-optimize apps
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Infrastructure Modernization
Secure and reliable infrastructure to cost-effectively migrate and modernize systems
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Unlock the value of your data with a suite of fully managed commercial and open-source databases, smart analytics, and AI
Data Management & Analytics
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Flexibly build, connect, modernize, and operate applications across cloud and on-premenvironments
Application Development
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GIFEE
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GoogleCloudPlatformOur global infrastructure
PLCN (HK, LA) 2019
Faster (US, JP, TW) 2016
Unity (US, JP) 2010
Dunant (US, FR) 2020
Monet (US, BR) 2017
Junior (Rio, Santos) 2018
Tannat (BR, UY, AR) 2018
SJC (JP, HK, SG) 2013
Indigo (SG, ID, AU) 2019
HK-G (HK, GU) 2019 JGA (AU, GU, JP) 2019
Curie (CL, US) 2019
Havfrue (US, IE, DK) 2019
Network
Edge pointsof presence
CDN nodes
Mumbai
Singapore
Kuala Lumpur
Sydney
Tokyo
ChennaiTaipei
Seattle
San Francisco
Montréal
Hamburg
Zurich
Madrid
Paris
London
HongKong
Osaka
Toronto
Chicago
Los Angeles
Denver
Dallas
Miami
Atlanta
Washington DC
New York
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Buenos Aires
MunichMilan
Marseille
Amsterdam
Stockholm
Frankfurt
Dedicated Interconnect
Current regionsand number of zones
Future regionsand number of zones Mumbai
Singapore
Jakarta
Sydney
Tokyo
Osaka
Hong Kong Taiwan
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3Oregon
Los AngelesIowa
S. Carolina
N. Virginia
Montréal
São Paulo
Finland
Frankfurt
Zurich3
Belgium
London
Netherlands
3Seoul
3
3Salt Lake City3 3
GCP offers 24 regions with 73 total zones. There are three zones per region, with the US-Central1 region having 4 zones.
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Anthos is cloud for everywhere the clouds aren’t
59.9% of global GDP is outside of public cloud HQ countries
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90% of Enterprise workloads do not run on the cloud
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Anthos for remote and branch offices
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Anthos for remote locations
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Anthos for Telco
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Anthos for Retail
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Partners help us address top 3 customer concerns
Technology Partners Platform & Multi-Cloud
100+ Kubernetes ready solutions on GCP Marketplace. Embedded OS (Ubuntu), SDN (Calico/eBPF), and integrated LB (F5) for a “batteries included” unified customer experience
Integrated HW & SW platforms for solution completeness. Anthos runs on HPE, Cisco, Dell, Lenovo and Netapp as well as multi-cloud. Validation via Anthos Ready program
Service Partners
70+ GSI/RSI, Reseller and MSP partners are active with ~2,000+ developers/practitioners trained on Anthos. GSI/RSI partners support hybrid & multi-cloud deployments for enterprise transformation and cloud-native application development
Can I use my favorite third party sw with Anthos?”
Can I run Anthos on my own servers and on other clouds?”
Who can help install Anthos. How do I move and modernize my apps? ”
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Leverage our broad ecosystem of partners to deliver best of breed offerings
ISVs & SaaS VARs, VADs, MSPs System IntegratorsTechnology Partners
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Anthos Ready Programhttps://cloud.google.com/partners/anthos-ready
● Identify, validate and promote partner solutions that adhere to Google
Cloud’s interoperability requirements for Anthos.
○ Platform: 9+ validated compute and server providers
○ Storage: 6+ HW and SW Kubernetes-ready storage solutions
○ Networking: SDN and Layer 7 ADC
○ Software: 85+ solutions on GCP Marketplace
TechTarget
“The Anthos Ready Storage program is significant because it shows a major public cloud provider understood the need to work with traditional on-
premises storage providers -- rather than the other way around -- to simplify and expedite deployments for enterprise hybrid clouds”
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Anthos Platform Partners14 published reference architectures for Anthos on HW, HCI, Storage platforms
https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/partner-platforms
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Anthos on Dell PowerFlex
https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/partner-platforms
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Anthos Reference Architectures on Dell
https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/partner-platforms
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Google CAMP - Cloud App Modernization Program
Data-driven assessment & benchmarking
Proven, scalable DevSecOps practices
Modern, extensible platform
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Our Channel Partner Mission:
Accelerate GCP/Anthos adoption by partnering
with Channel Partners to develop and and take
to market Application Modernization solutions &
offerings that meaningfully drive partner and
customer success.Leverage AppMod Solution Plays and Channel partners on turnkey motions Success depends on customer
adoption of Anthos for all workloads. We need partners to drive migration/modernization
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Identifying Anthos Opportunities
01Market Pressure for
Agility
Pressures from
competitors, shifts in
consumer expectations
or regulatory conditions.
02Cost Reduction
initiatives
Customer is undergoing
initiatives to reduce IT
costs and has traditional
software that can be
modernized.
042nd Generation Cloud
Native
Using existing container
and orchestration
solution but ready to
upgrade to enterprise-
class solution for global
hybrid/multi-cloud
operations
03Cloud Adoption
Initiatives
Your customer is
actively or planning to
move workloads from
on-premises to cloud.
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So What is Anthos?
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IT is forced to make trade-offs
Security vs Agility Reliability vs Cost Portability vs Consistency
● Development wants to use the latest tools, languages and plugins
● Security wants verified tools and validated systems before putting it into production
● Redundancy is the way to minimize downtime
● Redundancy means underutilized resources
● Lock-in gives you consistency
● Lock-in keeps you from using the best tools, negotiating better prices, or being as flexible as you want
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Personas
Application Owner/ DeveloperService level visibility
Service automation
Traffic control
Service management
Devops
Platform Operator
Frequent upgrades
Uses existing hardware
Consistent between On-Prem and Cloud
Implements open APIs, portable to any cloud
Google supported
Security Admin
Secure platform, upgrades, access, identity, inside VPC
Secure container pipeline
Service to service mTLS, secure by default
Centralized policy as code
Compliance both in the cloud and on-prem
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Cluster management
Servicemanagement
Serverless & App Development
Policy management
Operations management
Google CloudEdge Other clouds Attached clustersOn-prem
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GKE
Anthos Service Mesh
Cloud CodeCloud Run
Anthos Config Management
Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring
Google CloudBaremetal Other public clouds: AWS EC2, Azure
VMs
Attached clusters: EKS, AKS
On-prem hypervisor
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Anthos gives you freedom to modernize without being locked in
Infrastructure OperatorKubernetes Anthos GKE
Service Operator / SREIstio Anthos Service Mesh
DeveloperKnative Cloud Run
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Managed Kubernetes
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Anthos clusters
Container Management
Turn-key, production-grade, conformant Kubernetes with best-practice configuration
Access to container services on GCP such as Cloud Build, Container Registry, Audit Logging, and more
Get Started Quickly: Use the Cloud Console to easily create a cluster and view your workloads
Easy upgrade path to the latest Kubernetes releases that have been validated and tested by Google
Integration with Istio, Cloud Run, marketplace solutions
Reliable and Available: Anthos automatically repairs, upgrades, and scales your cluster with a high-availability control plane
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Anthos Deployment Options
Google Cloud Platform
(GA)
vSphere
(GA)
Bare Metal & Edge(GA)
Connected Clusters
(GA)
Azure
(Wider preview H2)
AWS EC2
(GA)
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Unified Management HubSingle pane of glass across Google Cloud & on-premises & other public cloud
Container Management
01 Orchestrate and manage on-prem containersjust like GKE in the cloud
02 Consistent operating model with access to GCP services across hybrid environments
03 Single-pane-of-glass for multiple Kubernetes clusters, no matter where
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Cloud ↔On-Premises Consistency
GKE GKE On-Prem
Kubernetes Version Upstream OSS Kubernetes with very minimal patches
Operating System Ubuntu or COS Ubuntu(vmware)
Management Tools GCP Console, kubectl, gcloud GCP Console, kubectl, gkectl
Network Policies CNI Plug-In
Logging Cloud Logging Cloud Logging or EFK
Monitoring Cloud Monitoring Cloud Monitoring or Prometheus
+ Grafana
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Anthos Bare Metal (Product Overview) Customer Provided & Managed
Google Provided, Customer Managed
Run Anthos component on customer provided Operating System
Virtual OpenStackPhysical
Install ● Customer deploys and manages OS lifecycle and provides ssh access to locally executed Anthos installation/lifecycle tooling
● Integrated preflight check to validate min system requirement
● Idempotent & declarative installer for all Anthos components
Compute ● Can be deployed on physical or virtual infrastructure
● Support RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu (Specific versions)
Network ● Google provided overlay networking & L4/L7 load balancing
Storage ● CSI integration with customer storage infra
Upgrade ● In-place upgrades
Observability ● Out of the box Stackdriver metrics and logs
● Can integrate with customer provided observability tools
VM Lifecycle Mgmt ● VM Management “Kubevirt”
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On-Prem Server
vSphere
User Cluster 1
Admin Cluster
Cluster creation, upgrade, teardown
GKE On-Prem Components
F5 BIG-IP LTM
Virtual Machine
Workload
Admin Workstation
gkectl
kubectl
Virtual Machine
kubelet
Virtual Machine
kubelet
vCenter APIs
User Control Plane
Virtual Machine
Admin Control Plane
kubelet
kubelet
Workload
Admin Cluster: A set of VMs that run the
control plane of the user cluster(s).
Admin Control Plane: Runs the kubernetes
API server, manages gkectl requests, generates
vCenter API calls, manages the user cluster(s)
control plane.
User Cluster(s): A set of VMs that run the user
cluster
User Control Plane(s): Environment to be
configured for the lab.
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Deployment Models
Anthos Bare Metal (Admin) Cluster
(Single) Anthos Bare Metal Cluster
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s Worker(s)K8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Master(s)
K8s Worker(s)
K8s Master(s)
Workstation
CLI
Anthos Bare Metal Cluster #1
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s Worker(s)K8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Master(s)
Workstation
CLI
Anthos Bare Metal Cluster #2
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s Worker(s)K8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Master(s)
Anthos Bare Metal Cluster #N
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Worker
K8s Worker(s)K8s Worker
K8s WorkerK8s Master(s)
● Single Cluster Model● CLI Based Lifecycle Management
● Multi Cluster Model● CLI & API Based Cluster Lifecycle Management
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Anthos Connected clusters ( like EKS)
+ no need to migrate if you're already running EKS
+ best integration with AWS
- different tooling for cluster lifecycle management
- no integration with GCP, e.g. accessing GCS, Cloud Operations (Stackdriver), etc.
Use Anthos on AWS
+ consistent management across multiple clouds: Web UI, Anthos CLI, GitOps
+ consistent authn for all Anthos clusters across clouds
+ seamless access to GCP services (H2 2020)
- migration effort for existing EKS users
- may lag EKS on AWS integration
2 options to use Anthos for customers staying on AWS
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Config and policy management
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Anthos Config
Management
Who Platform, service, and security operators
What
Managing infrastructure and platform lifecycle
Implementing and executing platform governance
Not for managing applications
How Modern DevOps workflows
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Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Operator team Imperative ops Multi-Platform environment
kubectl
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Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Pods
Pods
ns:app1 ns:app2
Operator team Config repo Multi-Platform environment
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Anthos Config Management
Monitors configs for drift every ~15s using annotations
Git repo can be On-Prem orCloud or SaaS
Use abstract Namespaces for config inheritance
Selectors allow scoping objects to specific clusters
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Require services to disable
unauthorized access
Example policy use cases
Only allow domain-restricted
Roles and RoleBindings
Require strict mTLS for all
clients/services in a namespace
Enforce specific labels for cost
accounting and chargeback
Require fine-grained service
authorization controls
Require access logging to be
enabled for a cluster / mesh
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Service management
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Istio
An open platform for
managing service
interactions across
containers and VMs
Service Mesh
A transparent and
language independent
way to automate
network functions
Anthos Service Mesh
A managed platform that uses Istio
APIs to provide service health tools,
complex traffic controls, and
managed security authority
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Why do you need a service meshWithout Service Mesh With Service Mesh
App Encryption library
Tracing libraryIdentity support
Circuit breaking
Ingress control
Certificate authority
Egress firewall
Access control
Pod
AppEgressIngress
Circuit breakingFault injection
IdentityEncryption
Observability
Ingress/Egress Controls – Certificate Authority – Access Controls – Routing Rules
Control plane
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How does Service Mesh help?
Secure Services
Policy driven security
Secure access and
communications between
some or all services
Manage Health
Uniform observability
Examine everything
happening with your services
with little instrumentation
Connect Services
Operational agility
Manage the flow of traffic
into, out of, and within your
complex deployments
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Uniform observability
Application A Application B
Trace request
& response flows
Consistent flow
logs and metrics
Monitor customer
impacting behavior
Understand service
dependencies
Track SLOs and
error budgets
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What gets measured gets improvedDeep visibility into your application
with service topology graph
Service Management
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Operational agility
Traffic splitting Traffic steering
Fault injection
Circuit breaking Egress control
Frontend v1
Backend v1
Backend v2
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Operational agility
Traffic splitting to canary services
Increase application resiliency with timeout, retries, fault injection and circuit breaking
Service A
service_b v2
service_b v1
service_b v1
service_b v1
Canary
95%
5%
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
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subset: v1
weight: 95
- destination:
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subset: v2
weight: 5
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Policy-driven security
Application A Application B
Traffic encryption Service auth Access policiesAuditing controls
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Policy-driven security
Encryption in transit
Services authn/ authz using service identities
User or app identity propagation
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BinAuth, CloudRun, Marketplace and Migrate
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Binary Authorization
Run only what you trust. Ensures that only properly signed containers are deployed to production.
● Deploy policy enforcement integrated into GKE
● Supports signature verification as well as image whitelisting
● What to verify at deploy time
○ Images are built by trusted CI/CD pipeline
○ Images pass security / quality tests (vul. Scan, QA etc.)
○ Only deploy explicitly allowed 3rd party images
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Cloud Run
Fully managed, deploy your
workloads and don’t see the cluster.
Cloud Run on GKE
Deploy into your GKE cluster, run
serverless side-by-side with your
existing workloads.
Cloud Run Everywhere Else
Use the same APIs and tooling
anywhere you run Kubernetes with
Knative.
Serverless on Kubernetes EverywhereNew
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Marketplace for application development
Example Partners
Security, Database, Developer
Tools, Machine Learning,
Monitoring, Analytics, and more
Find
VMs, Kubernetes
applications, APIs,
container images, and
datasets for GCP’s AI, ML,
Big Data, and Cloud
Services Platform.
Deploy
Vetted solutions with
customizable deployment
templates, optimized to
run on GCP, CSP, or
anywhere Kubernetes
clusters are deployed.
Use
Aggregated with the rest
of your GCP spend,
transparent usage data,
and access to support
from commercial
solution providers.
Application Development
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Move VMs directly into containers in GKEwith Migrate for Anthos
Migration service
● Low friction path for existing workloads to GKE○ Improve security and manageability without code change
● Accelerated migration, integration into modern infra○ Significant reduction in cost, time, labor, complexity compared
with upgrading manually, as is current norm.
○ Low touch migration to GKE, w/ minimal downtime
○ Migrate without deep knowledge of apps moved
● Modernization paths to add’l cloud services○ Enable multiple options: image extraction/generalization,
monolith breakdown, persistent data migration to 2nd hop
managed storage/databases
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Questions?
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Thank You
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For more information -
● Anthos on PowerFlex– https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-rs/collaterals/unauth/white-papers/products/converged-infrastructure/vxflex-integrated-
rack-for-anthos-solution.pdf
– https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/section-assets/powerflex-for-anthos-at-equinix-solution-000071-1
● PowerScale for Google Cloud– https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/cloud/cloud-services/storage/powerscale-for-google-
cloud.htm#:~:text=PowerScale%20for%20Google%20Cloud%20provides,Big%20Data%2C%20and%20optimizes%20performance
– https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/collaterals/unauth/analyst-reports/products/storage/white-paper-esg-technical-review-performance-testing-onefs-google-cloud.pdf
● Questions/Information about the Dell/Google Alliance, Offerings, etc.– [email protected]
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