Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos
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Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos
At its Cloud Next event in London, Google today announced a number of product updates around its managed Anthos platform, as well as Apigee and its Cloud Code tools for building modern applications that can then be deployed to Google Cloud or any Kubernetes cluster.
Anthos is one of the most important recent launches for Google, as it expands the company's reach outside of Google Cloud and into its customers' data centers and, increasingly, edge deployments. At today's event, the company announced that it is taking Anthos Migrate out of beta and into general availability. The overall idea behind Migrate is that it allows enterprises to take their existing, VM-based workloads and convert them into containers. Those machines could come from on-prem environments, AWS, Azure or Google's Compute Engine, and - once converted - can then run in Anthos GKE, the Kubernetes service that's part of the platform.
"That really helps customers think about a leapfrog strategy, where they can maintain the existing VMs but benefit from the operational model of Kubernetes," Google Engineering Director Jennifer Lin told me. "So even though you may not get all of the benefits of a cloud-native container day one, what you do get is consistency in the operational paradigm."
As for Anthos itself, Lin tells me that Google is seeing some good momentum. The company is highlighting a number of customers at today's event, including Germany's Kaeser Kompressoren and Turkey's Denizbank.
Lin noted that a lot of financial institutions are interested in Anthos. "A lot of the need to do data-driven applications, that's where Kubernetes has really hit that sweet spot because now you have a