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MARK MIRCHANDANI: Hey, everyone.
We're here the Infrastructure and Migration
Zone of Google Cloud Next.
I'm Mark Mirchandani.
I'm here with Srinath.
Srinath, we heard a lot today about Anthos.
What is Anthos?
Why is it so exciting?
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: Anthos is incredibly exciting for us
at Google Cloud.
We announced Anthos as Cloud Services Platform
just over eight months ago.
And today, we're very excited to announce
general availability of Anthos for our customers
to be able to use it.
Anthos is our Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platform
that gives our customers the ability
to build once and run anywhere.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Why is Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
so important right now?
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: That's a great question, Mark.
So hybrid and Multi-Cloud has been on top of mind
for a lot of our customers.
They're very, very excited about the ability to use clouds.
But oftentimes what happens is when they're running something
on-prem but running something else in the cloud,
it becomes hard for them to manage
these different deployments that make
them segment their workforce into engineers who are working
on different things instead of focusing on innovating
for their customers.
So that's why Hybrid and Multi-Cloud is very important.
And it's very important to have a uniform platform like Anthos
that lets customers run in a uniform way across the board.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: So we're talking about standardizing,
making sure that everyone's on the same level.
For people who are here at the showcase,
they can come interact with this booth.
What does this tell people who are looking
at what does Anthos do for me?
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: So what we have in this demo
is we've taken the analogy of a city and how it works,
and we've used that to show how Hybrid and Multi-Cloud is
very important and how Anthos helps
in that particular analogy.
So let's get started.
So we have these three things that you can do over
the course of this demo.
First, let's start off by modernizing your services.
There are multiple reasons you would
want to modernize your service.
For instance, it gives you a lot more agility and speed
and lets you deploy faster.
So in this demo, there are two options
for how you can modernize your applications.
You can either containerize them manually
or you can use CSP Migrate, which
is now called Anthos Migrate, to be
able to migrate these applications automatically
from VMs running on-prem into containers running
in the cloud.
So for the sake of this run-through,
let's select Modernizing with Velostrata,
which is Anthos Migrate.
So Velostrata automatically containerizes
your VM-based workload and will deploy them
to GKE running in the cloud.
So just as easily as that, you'll have all of you
a VMs now move to the cloud as containers.
Now, let's look at the second part.
We also help you standardize config management
using Anthos Config Management.
What Anthos Config Management lets you do
is it lets you take a single configuration
and deploy it across the board, declaratively and uniformly,
without you having to go and do it once at a time per platform.
So no matter whether you're running only on-prem,
in Google Cloud, or maybe even with other clouds,
you can do this all at once.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Right.
So now it's all standardized.
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: So now it's all standardized.
And so for the third part of this demo,
there's something very exciting for me,
which is a service mesh.
A service mesh is basically a mechanism
that lets you look deep into the traffic that's actually flowing
between your applications, whether they're
on on-premise or in the cloud.
In this case, what we're going to do
is we're going to use Anthos to implement a service
mesh between on-prem world here and the two
cloud worlds that we have.
And by doing this, we're able to select a service
and we're able to say that let's upgrade the service.
Now, when you upgrade the service,
you pick a new version that you want to upgrade to, but instead
of upgrading everything at once, what you're going to do
is you're going to select a small percentage off your VMs
or workloads and upgrade them at once.
So when you do this and you upgrade these containers
at that point in time, you will upgrade just that 20%.
So that you see everything is running fine,
and you don't have anything broken.
And once you are confident that this service is working well,
you can upgrade everything else.
So this means now you're able to roll out applications
with limited downtime to almost 0 downtime for your customers.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: So you can see how
Anthos uses open source technologies but also
this idea of standardization to really bring it to everybody.
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: Yes.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: What's an example customer
or concrete use case that Anthos has right now?
SRINATH PADMANABHAN: Great question.
So we have a lot of customers who have been
very excited to use Anthos.
And they span multiple verticals.
Like, for instance, HSBC from retail and banking
and Siemens who's a giant when it comes to manufacturing
are also looking at Anthos as their platform of choice
for doing IoT and then IoT Platform.
So there are multiple customers across verticals
like retail and health care who are
very excited about this platform and love
that ability to standardize and have a uniform platform.
MARK MIRCHANDANI: Perfect.
Well, thank you so much Srinath.
I'm sure there's going to be tons of great content here
about Anthos and lots of other stuff at Google Cloud Next
so stay tuned.
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