{"id":10584,"date":"2019-09-23T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T08:34:02","slug":"googles-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-now-in-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.adeptasiaconsulting.com\/googles-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-now-in-beta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Googles hybrid cloud platform is now in beta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last July, at its Cloud Next conference, Google <\/a> announced<\/a> the Cloud Services Platform, its first real foray into bringing its own cloud services into the enterprise data center as a managed service. Today, the Cloud Services Platform (CSP) is launching into beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that the CSP isn\u2019t \u2014 at least for the time being \u2014 Google\u2019s way of bringing all of its cloud-based developer services to the on-premises data center. In other words, this is a very different project from something like Microsoft\u2019s Azure Stack. Instead, the focus is on the Google Kubernetes Engine<\/a>, which allows enterprises to then run their applications in both their own data centers and on virtually any cloud platform that supports containers.\"\"As Google Cloud engineering director Chen Goldberg told me, the idea here it to help enterprises innovate and modernize. \u201cClearly, everybody is very excited about cloud computing, on-demand compute and managed services, but customers have recognized that the move is not that easy,\u201d she said and noted that the vast majority of enterprises are adopting a hybrid approach. And while containers are obviously still a very new technology, she feels good about this bet on the technology because most enterprises are already adopting containers and Kubernetes \u2014 and they are doing so at exactly the same time as they are adopting cloud and especially hybrid clouds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that CSP is a managed platform. Google handles all of the heavy lifting like upgrades and security patches. And for enterprises that need an easy way to install some of the most popular applications, the platform also supports Kubernetes <\/a> applications from the GCP Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As for the tech itself, Goldberg stressed that this isn\u2019t just about Kubernetes. The service also uses Istio<\/a>, for example, the increasingly popular service mesh that makes it easier for enterprises to secure and control the flow of traffic and API calls between its applications.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s release, Google is also launching its new CSP Config Management tool to help users create multi-cluster policies and set up and enforce access controls, resource quotas and more. CSP also integrates with Google\u2019s Stackdriver Monitoring<\/a> service and continuous delivery platforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn-prem is not easy,\u201d Goldberg said, and given that this is the first time the company is really supporting software in a data center that is not its own, that\u2019s probably an understatement. But Google also decided that it didn\u2019t want to force users into a specific set of hardware specifications like Azure Stack does, for example. Instead, CSP sits on top of VMware\u2019s vSphere server virtualization platform<\/a>, which most enterprises already use in their data centers anyway. That surely simplifies things, given that this is a very well-understood platform.<\/p>\n

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Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n