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MARK MIRCHANDANI: We're here with Tim, CTO
from Techolution, who'll be sharing
with us a bit more about Techolution
and how they implement Anthos.
But first, Tim, can you tell us a bit more
about what Techolution does and what it means
to be a Google Cloud partner?
TIM DELESIO: Sure.
Well first of all, thanks Mark for having me on the show.
It's great to be here.
Techolution helps companies come in, modernize their application
stack, and really come up with a strategy
on how to get to the cloud.
And then we'll go in, set up their cloud environment
for them, make sure it's secure, and ready to be
deploying applications to.
And then we'll even run manage services at the end,
if they're interested.
I work with a lot of companies.
And they really, really want to modernize the place.
And they want to run containers and they
want to run in their data center or maybe
multiple cloud providers.
And the options that are out there are really limited.
And they all have some sort of drawback
and some sort of things that really stop you
from working with it.
Whereas Anthos, it really doesn't.
I mean, there's a lot of amazing things with it.
It's based on open source technology.
It frees you from the vendor lock
and you can deploy it to many clouds.
It has the power of GKE, so it helps
you run the cloud for you.
And it really is-- it's not that expensive.
So there's just a lot of benefits to it.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: That makes sense
for how Anthos can help people.
But how does it actually do those individual things?
TIM DELESIO: Anthos is actually a collection of tools.
I should say, a collection of mostly open source tools,
which even brings a lot of more power to it.
So first you have GKE on Prem, which brings you
the power of GKE and all those benefits, like I said,
that Google brings forward for you.
Manages the clusters for you.
It allows you that scalability.
And all the amazing things that come along with it.
Second, you got the Anthos configuration manager, which
is a great piece of technology that
allows you to treat your configurations as code so you
can check them into the repository, make changes.
And when you want to change or update the system,
it'll automatically pull it down.
The next is the Anthos Service Mesh,
which is a product based on ISTIO, which
allows you to kind of get some insight
into your inter-process communication
between your containers and get some insight into actually
what's going on.
And next on the list, you have Cloud Run,
which is a server list technology that
allows you to bring the functions
and the service list benefits you get to your data center
or to any other cloud provider.
And then finally, you have the Marketplace.
So if you need to use third party tools like MongoDB,
or Redis or Elasticsearch or any of the things
that are actually in the marketplace,
you can bring those to wherever you're actually running Anthos.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: So it makes sense
these different pieces kind of play
together to create a really great solution.
TIM DELESIO: Yes, yes.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: For a wide variety of use cases.
Can you talk a bit more about how you've implemented
Anthos in a specific use case?
And like, what that brought to the table?
TIM DELESIO: Absolutely.
Anthos is still relatively new technology.
You know, it just came out last April.
So people are still learning to get their hands on it
and figure out how it works.
So we've been working with a lot of customers.
And when they embark on this journey by themselves,
you know, and they don't properly plan and strategize
how they're going to do this, they kind of run into problems.
We've saved many customers coming in and helping
them strategize.
So we're able to come in, set up a plan,
use some of our automation and our IP that we've created
and help them get to Anthos in 30 days or less.
Another good scenario that we worked with,
which is very, very specific one,
is we're working with a client.
And the IT operations guy probably
had a little too much power than he should have.
And he was working with the environment
and he was in a qual environment-- at least
he thought he was in a qual environment.
But he was actually in a production environment.
And he accidentally deleted the namespace.
And you can't imagine what the repercussions of that were.
So with Anthos, if he was running
Anthos and those Configuration Manager,
he wouldn't have had that problem.
Because if you delete the namespace,
it will automatically go back to the single source of truth,
a.k.a., the repository, pull the latest version
of whatever it was, and rebuild the cluster for you.
So actually, after we deployed Anthos for him,
we actually showed him this and had him actually do it.
And he was amazed at how quick it actually
rebuilt the cluster right in front of him.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: I'm sure that's
a situation that unfortunately, a lot of us can relate to.
TIM DELESIO: Unfortunately yes.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: But it kind of gives
a good example of where the power of Anthos
and implementing it comes from.
So for people who are interested in maybe taking on Anthos
or learning more about it, what are Some
of the big takeaways for them?
TIM DELESIO: Sure.
The biggest thing that I think that you kind of don't
necessarily think about is it really brings the cloud to you,
allows you to modernize in place.
So if you want to run containers and micro services,
and you want to run that in your data center
or really any cloud provider that you choose,
it brings that capabilities for you.
And it brings all the power of GKE and the management of that.
It's also great for companies that
have problems with either regulations, whether they
be data regulations or government regulations,
where they've got to keep all of the data in one place.
You can bring the cloud to them where you
don't have to get the data out.
You know, some of the big takeaways
that I've learned from actually setting up and installing
Anthos is make sure that you have full logging enabled.
I mean, you need to be able to see
every log item that goes in, whether it's info or to bug.
The more logging you have, the better you'll be.
And second, you know, when you're actually
going in and setting this up, you
need to be really good at recreating this.
You need to be able to wipe it clean,
start fresh, and just keep going and plugging away.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: It's always great to hear these customer
stories.
So thank you so much for coming in and telling
us a bit more about what makes Anthos so powerful.
TIM DELESIO: Thanks Mark.
Thanks for having me.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: If you'd like to learn more
about Techolution, visit Techolution.com.
Thanks for watching.
And stay tuned for more great episodes of Stack Chat.