Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos

Upon completion of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos course, students will be able to:

• Explain each layer of the Anthos technology stack and the problems it is designed to address.
• Create, connect and manage Anthos clusters from multiple deployment environments.
• Load-balance clusters running in Google Cloud.
• Describe automating policy and security at scale with Config Management.
• Create multi-cluster networking architectures with Anthos Service Mesh.
• Deploy and run applications on an Anthos on-premises solution
• Monitor and troubleshoot applications running on an Anthos on-premises solution.
• Install workloads on Cloud Run and Cloud Run for Anthos.
• Configure and review logging, metrics, and monitoring for serverless computing solutions on Anthos.
• Install and use Migrate for Anthos to migrate workloads.

This course is primarily intended for the following participants: Technical employees using GCP, including customer companies, partners and system integrators: deployment engineers, cloud architects, cloud administrators, system engineers , and SysOps/DevOps engineers. Individuals using GCP to create, integrate, or modernize solutions using secure, scalable microservices architectures in hybrid environments.
 

• Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals; Core Infrastructure
• Architecting with GKE

Introducing Anthos

• Overview
• Anthos technology stack
• Anthos components
• Billing

Anthos Environments

• Containers and GKE review
• Anthos for centrally managed clusters
• Creating and managing Anthos clusters
• Anthos clusters on AWS
• Anthos clusters on Azure

Multi-cluster Concepts on Anthos

• Anthos fleets
• Fleet networking
• Multi-cluster Service
• Multi-cluster Gateway

Managing Configuration with Anthos

• Challenges with configuration management
• Anthos Config Management
• Config Sync
• Hierarchy Controller
• Policy Controller
• Config Connector
• Blueprints

Introducing Anthos Service Mesh

• Introduction to Anthos Service Mesh
• Architecture
• Installation
• Life of a request in the mesh
• Mesh telemetry and instrumentation
• Anthos Service Mesh dashboards
• Anthos Service Mesh pricing and suppor

Anthos Service Mesh Routing

• Networking and service discovery
• Anthos Service Mesh API resources
• Network resilience and testing

Securing Network Traffic with Anthos Service Mesh

• Security across services
• Authentication and encryption
• Service authentication in the mesh
• End-user authentication in the mesh
• Authorization in the mesh
• Bonus: Employee authentication and authorization in the mesh

Multi-cluster Networking with Anthos Service Mesh

• Fleet networking
• Single network east-west routing
• Multiple network east-west routing
• North-south routing

Introduction to Anthos Clusters on Bare Metal

• Overview
• Use cases for clusters on-premises
• Anthos on bare metal specifics
• Components and services
• Support
• Billing

Planning and Building the Admin Cluster

• Architecture
• Resource requirements
• Setting up the admin workstation
• Building the admin cluster
• Troubleshooting the admin bootstrap process
• Additional architectural options

Adding and Configuring User Clusters

• Building the user cluster
• Enabling authentication
• Deploying applications
• Configuring storage

Operating and Managing Clusters

• Observability
• Logging
• Monitoring
• Operations
• Security

Application Migration with Anthos

• Modernization vision
• Workload discovery and migration assessment
• Migrating applications to containers

Modern CI/CD for Anthos

• CI/CD in Google Cloud
• CI/CD in a private network
• CI/CD on-premises and multi-cloud environments
• Securing the software supply chain
• Deploying 3rd party software

Serverless Computing Solutions on Anthos

• Overview of serverless computing solutions and their associated Anthos components
• Install Cloud Run for Anthos
• Running serverless workloads on Anthos