Google brings virtualizations and connectivity with AWS to Anthos cloud platform

Google Anthos platform gets support for workloads in virtual machines. The company says many developers want to use the Kubernetes platform, but aren’t ready to move away from VMs completely.

The feature is called Anthos for Virtual Machines and is part of the Anthos multicloud platform that Google presented in 2018. Anthos is a Kubernetes-based platform in Google Cloud. Anthos for VM allows developers to continue running certain workloads in virtual machines and not in a separate container. There is a link with VMware, so that users can put their VMware VMs directly in Anthos. You can do that simply via the Anthos dashboard. It is also possible to link multiple virtual machines in this way. It is also possible to link other VMs via an api. This is possible with KubeVirt, the api for Kubernetes.

Google also makes it possible to manage containers from Amazon Web Services or from Azure from Anthos. The company is releasing a new API for this. It will be available later this year. With that API, users can manage their clusters in AWS or Azure from Google’s Cloud Console, or from a CLI.

The company writes in a blog post that it saw that many customers wanted to switch to a container environment, but were not always afraid to do so because they preferred to run certain workloads in a virtual machine instead of an open cloud environment. The new features make it possible to choose which workloads are involved so that certain workloads can be better protected or meet certain compliance requirements.