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Policy Controller Dashboard: Now Available For All Anthos And GKE Environments

Customers using Kubernetes at scale need consistent guardrails for how resources are used across all their environments to improve their security, resource management and flexibility, and to achieve faster time-to-market and better operational efficiency. At the same time, customers tell us they need an easy way to apply and view those policy guardrails, including enforcement status, violations and remediation recommendations for their fleet of clusters. In January 2023, we launched the Policy Controller dashboard along with out-of-the-box policy bundles. And now, the Policy Controller dashboard is available for all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Anthos environments (i.e., on-premises, multi-cloud and attached clusters)…

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Announcing Our Anthos Hybrid Environment Reference Architecture

your environment, we’re excited to announce a new Anthos reference architecture. Written in collaboration across our product, engineering, support, and field teams, this new reference architecture helps you plan, deploy, and configure the required components for Anthos hybrid environments. Anthos hybrid environments give you the flexibility to deploy on-premises components that run container-based workloads and VMs using Anthos clusters on VMware and Anthos clusters on bare metal. You can continue to utilize existing investments in your on-premises infrastructure, and start to add components like Anthos Config Management. When you’re ready to bring everything together, you can add additional Google Cloud-based services like Artifact Registry, Cloud…

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Kubernetes K8s.gcr.io Redirect: What You Need To Know As An Anthos Or GKE User

In November 2022, the open source Kubernetes project announced that its new image registry, registry.k8s.gcr.io, was officially GA. The new registry would replace the legacy k8s.gcr.io registry, with k8s.gcr.io getting no further updates after April 3, 2023. To assist in this transition and ensure that users of earlier Kubernetes releases and tooling can update to supported versions in time, the Kubernetes project, in partnership with Google, gradually started redirecting image requests from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io on March 20, 2023. Today’s post covers what’s happening, why, and, more importantly, what actions you can take to switch to registry.k8s.io to mitigate future…

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Engineering

How Anthos Helps Improve Your Platform And Application Security And Governance

Security has become a critical component in every modern application and platform today. As IT admins try to implement security policies required to protect applications across distributed platforms, they often run into issues such as the lack of effective policy enforcement and lack of visibility into the policy violations. In addition, whenever there is a platform policy change, application operators struggle to figure out the cause of the issues due to the lack of effective policy monitoring capabilities for live deployments. Anthos is a secure container application platform that runs both on premises and in public clouds, with integrated and…

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Here’s How Anthos Helps You Do Cluster Lifecycle Operations In Your Hybrid And Multicloud Environment

Anthos is a cloud-centric container platform to run modern apps anywhere consistently at scale. Anthos manages your Kubernetes clusters not only on Google Cloud, but also in on-premises data centers and edges, as well as in other public clouds such as AWS and Azure. Anthos meets you where you are and helps you modernize applications in place.Last year, we introduced a cloud-hosted multicloud API for performing lifecycle management of Anthos clusters on AWS and Azure. This year, we’re focused on bringing a consistent experience across hybrid, multicloud and Google Cloud environments, and are pleased to announce that a similar cloud-backed…

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Engineering

View Policy Enforcement Metrics For ACM Policy Controller

Policy Controller enables the enforcement of fully programmable policies for your clusters. These policies act as “guardrails” and prevent any changes from violating security, operational, or compliance controls at admission time, and post admission, using continuous audit. Through ongoing conversations with platform and security administrators, we have received feedback about increasing visibility into how the policies are applied i.e. enforced or audited across Anthos or GKE clusters.With the Anthos Config Management (ACM) 1.12.0 onwards, we have made it easier to export and visualize Policy Controller metrics. Policy Controller Metrics Policy controller includes the metrics related to policy usage such as…

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Extending Anthos To Manage On-Premises Edge VMs: Now Generally Available

We are pleased to announce general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos. VM support is available on Anthos for bare metal (now known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual). Customers can now run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge. With VM support in Anthos, developers and operations teams can run VMs alongside containers on shared cloud-native infrastructure. VM support in Anthos lets you achieve consistent container and VM operations with Kubernetes-style declarative configuration and policy enforcement, self-service deployment, observability and monitoring, all from the familiar Google Cloud…

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Securing Apps For Googlers Using Anthos Service Mesh

Hi there! I’m David Challoner from Access Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), here with Anthony Bushong from Developer Relations to talk about how Corp Eng is adopting Anthos Service Mesh internally at Google. Corp Eng is Google’s take on “Enterprise IT”. A big part of the Corp Eng mission is running the first and third party software that powers internal business processes – from legal and finance to floor planning and even the app hosting our cafe menus – all with the same security or production standards as any of Google’s first party applications. Googlers need to access these applications, which sometimes then…

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Best Practices For Upgrading Your Anthos Clusters On Bare Metal

If you’re using Anthos to enable a hybrid or multicloud deployment, one option is to run the Kubernetes-based platform directly on bare metal hardware, without a virtualization layer. Running your applications on Anthos clusters on bare metal delivers strong performance and flexibility, while allowing you to modernize your applications: Anthos clusters on bare metal are fully integrated with the Anthos dashboard in the Google Cloud Console, as well as Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring. In addition, a new Anthos Service Mesh dashboard makes it easy to see the application services running on the Anthos clusters in your hybrid environment, offering…

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