Appendix C. Compute environment running on VMware

Jarosław Gajewski

This chapter covers:

  • Understanding VMware and Anthos architecture
  • Deployment of the management plane
  • Deploying a user cluster
  • Anthos networking load-balancer options

As you already know, Google provides a managed Kubernetes service called Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) hosted on their infrastructure. This managed solution has solved multiple problems for Kubernetes consumers including lifecycle management, security and physical resource delivery. While deploying applications in the Cloud has been growing each year, many enterprises still have a significant footprint of resources in their own data centers.

Google recognized that organizations may have various reasons to keep ...

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