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The Recipe for Deploying Managed Kubernetes On-Premises

How to increase agility and speed to market by combining Google Anthos and Dell EMC

The numbers tell the story

According to a 2019 report from McKinsey Digital, 71% of CEOs named improved agility and faster time to market as top priorities.

That percentage was just below revenue acceleration (88%) and above cost reduction (47%) on the list of priorities. The reason the number is so high is because CEOs recognize that in order to remain competitive and meet customer expectations, their enterprises need to be able to adapt to the ever-changing market. But if increasing agility and speed to market are the goals, for many, the act of actually achieving those goals can be elusive.

For large enterprises in particular, who aren’t exactly known for their ability to adjust quickly, adopting new ways of developing products and services can be a challenge.

Some of the roadblocks these enterprises often encounter include:

Lack of talent and experience needed to adopt new development processes
Security requirements that complicate and slow application development
Difficulty in implementing new technologies effectively

On this page, you will learn how you can alleviate these pain points.

On this page, you'll find ...

Managing Kubernetes on a hybrid cloud infrastructure
The benefits of Google Anthos
Leveraging the power of Anthos and Dell EMC
Putting Anthos to work

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Managing Kubernetes on a hybrid cloud infrastructure

Developing in the past

For decades, the recipe for application development was basically the same: a large datacenter controlled by a large IT department where teams of developers would all work on a large, monolithic application.

While this process for development was effective, it was also cumbersome.

The deployment of new products was slow, errors in one part of an application would bring the entire product down, and companies were forced to continually invest in ever-growing hardware and IT needs.

Enter Kubernetes, containers, and microservices

Modern development practices leverage the power and scalability of the cloud and hybrid cloud platforms. For enterprises that rely on a hybrid cloud solution, whether it’s for security needs or otherwise, Kubernetes makes managing workloads across platforms far easier.

Instead of the often inefficient work on monolithic applications, developers are now able to:

Break applications into microservices that can be worked on independently
Utilize containers to greatly accelerate deployment
Easily manage and coordinate hundreds of containers with Kubernetes

Think of microservices and containers as the instruments in your development cycle, with Kubernetes as the orchestrator ensuring communication across the board. Without the conductor, you end up with noise rather than a symphony.

The benefits of Google Anthos

An open hybrid multi-cloud application platform, Google Anthos has been created in order to help enterprises securely modernize, build, and run applications regardless of where that work is being done.

For enterprises looking to adopt a hybrid cloud solution in particular, Anthos delivers a robust suite of tools to help make managing workloads across platforms as painless as possible.

Key elements of Anthos include:

Full integration of Kubernetes
Single pane of glass visibility to manage applications and the infrastructure that supports them
The ability to manage those applications on-premises, in the cloud, or via a hybrid solution without the need for new hardware
Security and governance tools

It’s important to note that while Anthos is designed to assist in the transition to hybrid multi-cloud platforms, it’s not in itself a strategy to do so. Instead, it’s a tool to make utilizing those platforms—and the modern development processes that benefit from them—easier once they’re up and running.

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