Anthos

Question 1

What is Anthos ?

Answer 1

is a managed application platform that extends Google cloud Services and engineering practices. It enables you to manage GKE clusters and workloads running on virtual machines across environments.

Question 2

What are the deployment options for Anthos ?

Answer 2

1. Google Cloud
2. VMWare vSphere
3. Bare-metal servers
4. Anthos attached clusters
5. AWS
6. Microsoft Azure

Question 3

When migrating to Anthos what three questions are key to have answered ?

Answer 3

1. Can I virtualize my stack.
2. Can I still support all of my license, security, privacy and compliance requirements if I migrate to the cloud.
3. Can I support all app dependencies in the. cloud

Question 4

Name the types of migration to Google Cloud

Answer 4

1. Managed cloud services
2. containers on GKE or Anthos
3. VMs on Google Compute Engine
4. Google VMWare Engine
5. Google Cloud Bare Metal Solution

Question 5

What are Fleets

Answer 5

A fleet provides a way to logically group and normalize Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud environments, making administration of infrastructure easier.

Question 6

Three benefits of using Anthos

Answer 6

1. Modernize apps and infrastructure in place
2. Scale large multi-cluster applications
3. Ensure consistent governance and security

Question 7

What is Anthos Service Mesh

Answer 7

Anthos Service Mesh is Google’s implementation of the powerful Istio open-source project, allowing you to manage, observe, and secure your services without having to change your application code

Question 8

What is Anthos Config Management

Answer 8

Is a system that evaluates changes and rolls them out to all Kubernetes clusters so that your desired state is always reflected

Question 9

Traffic Director

Answer 9

is a fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh. With Traffic Director, you can easily deploy global load balancing across clusters and VM instances in multiple regions, offload health checking from service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies.

Question 10

Multicloud API

Answer 10

enables you to provision and manage GKE clusters running on AWS and Azure infrastructure through a centralized Google Cloud backed control plane. This means that your team can have a consistent experience to create, manage, and update GKE clusters, regardless of which public cloud you’re using.

Question 11

Anthos for VM

Answer 11

Supports development teams that want to standardize on Kubernetes but have existing workloads running on virtual machines that cannot be easily containerized. Anthos for VMs lets you modernize virtual machine workloads with the power of Kubernetes.

Question 12

Knative

Answer 12

Knative is an extension of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform that enables serverless workloads to run on Kubernetes clusters, and provides tools and utilities that make building, deploying and managing containerized applications within Kubernetes a simpler and more ‘native-to-Kubernetes’ experience

Question 13

What are the main components of Istio ?

Answer 13

Pilot for Traffic Management, Mixer for Observability and Citadel for Service-to-Service Security. There is also Enjoy which is the proxy that intercepts communication into the instance