Hello, everyone, we're here at KubeCon in Barcelona.
With me is Aparna Sinha.
She is Director of Product Management of Kubernetes and...
- Anthos. - Anthos, that's right.
Can you start off telling us what Anthos is?
Sure, Anthos is our hybrid Cloud offering
that's based on Kubernetes Istio and our multicluster management
control plane that's hosted in the Cloud.
We're here at KubeCon.
This conference is all about open source.
How does GKE relate to open source,
and why is there such a big presence of Google here?
Why the Google presence?
Google is the originator of the Kubernetes project.
It came from our history with Borg as you know.
We've been running containers in production for 15 years now.
And we're launching billions of containers, new containers,
every week, even today.
So that's why Google is here.
We're very, very passionate about this project.
We have hundreds of engineers and product managers
that are working on the project and have been since the last five years.
As you know it's the fifth anniversary of Kubernetes, and so we're having
a birthday celebration here.
It's also the fifth anniversary, pretty soon, this year, of GKE.
So GKE was started pretty much in parallel with Kubernetes.
It is our hosted version of Kubernetes running in Google Cloud,
Google Kubernetes engine.
It is the oldest, most mature,
most stable, and widely used distribution
and hosted offering of Kubernetes in use today.
So we're very, very excited about both Kubernetes
as well as GKE, and they actually have really built off of each other.
So another component of Anthos that I'm really interested in is Istio.
Can you tell me more about that?
Yeah, as you move to microservices, you find that you actually have
a lot of services in your environment, and you need a good way
to manage those services.
And in particular, you want to be able to monitor the services,
have observability about which services are talking to which other services,
to be able to set policies on those services
from a security perspective, and to be able to control traffic
when you need to.
And this is the essential function of an SRE inside Google,
you know, a site reliability engineer.
Developers are not typically the ones that are making sure that the service
is up and running or setting the security policies.
And with Istio and with Anthos, in general what we do is we allow
the ability for that separation of concerns, where you can have
an SRE or operator-type role that is doing the service management,
that is taking care of monitoring, securing, and ensuring the reliability
of your services through that traffic management.
So that's the capability that we provide with Istio,
and then the combination of that and Anthos configuration management,
which lets you, from a single source of truth, set policies,
both configuration policies, security policies, RBAC,
quota-- these types of policies--
across your multicluster environment, allows you to do that
from a single pane of glass.
That's really what enterprises need, particularly as they have
these multiple environments,
whether they're at different retail locations
or On-Prem, different data centers and Cloud,
the configuration management capability and the service management capability
is how they're able to standardize and manage and have that operations team
that can take care of the environment, freeing up the developers
to do their coding and take care of the business functions
that their business requires.
So it sounds like the Anthos ecosystem is going to provide a lot
of very awesome functionality to customers very soon.
So last question is what are you looking forward to
at KubeCon this week?
Well, I'm looking forward to your keynote.
That's definitely a big highlight.
I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of the ecosystem
in the community here.
Another part of Anthos is our marketplace,
so we've got a marketplace in Google Cloud,
and what we've done actually in our workloads team
is we've got the application object.
And we are working with a lot of the community here,
a lot of the ecosystem, to create containerized forms
of their applications, whether it's in the form of operators
or it's just containers or some other package that they want to use
and then publishing it to the marketplace in GCP and that marketplace
is then available to all Anthos customers, whether it's on GKE
or it's on GKE On-Prem, and they can deploy those applications
out of the gate with support from the ecosystem.
So we're really bringing the open source ecosystem to Google Cloud users,
and I think that has a multiplicative effect
and is a big reason to be here.
It's a big reason to really build on
what we've done with the community.
That's sounds awesome.
Thank you so much for your time, Aparna.
Thank you.
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