Anthos: Modernize, Build and Run Workloads in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

Table of Contents:

● Overview - Cloud Adoption … 02

● How Hybrid and Multi-Cloud are Different? … 03

● Anthos Stack & Its Components … 04

● Planning a Successful Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Journey … 06

● Adoption Challenges and Risks … 13

● Anthos - Cost-Benefits Analysis … 14

● Migrate and Build with Logicbulls and Google Cloud … 15

Strategy. Transformation. LeanOps.

“84% of enterprises run on a multi-cloud

strategy. Cloud technology trends show

28% of companies prefer hybrid cloud

strategies. Public and private clouds are used

equally by 17% of companies” - Rightscale

“22% of enterprise workloads will be

handled by hybrid cloud platforms. 83% of

enterprises will upload workload to the cloud

— 41% on public cloud platforms, 22% –

on hybrid ones” - Forbes

Hybrid and multi-cloud strategies are preferred by

companies as it offers flexibility and scalability along with

the ability to decouple infrastructure hardware, mitigate

dependencies arising from single cloud adoption, and

solving the challenges of traditional on-premise

environments.

But what is the right model for your organization?

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption Overview

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Choosing Multi-Cloud or Hybrid Cloud?

A well-defined cloud strategy is an essential element of every successful IT department. An organization’s cloud adoption planning begins with a

basic, yet pertinent, question – Hybrid or Multi-cloud? While they may have similar attributes, hybrid or multi-cloud greatly differ at an

operational level. One must consider the pros and cons of both traditional and new practices in terms of tools, security, and budgets.

For example, hybrid clouds require organizational focus on native operational tools whereas, multi-cloud require focus and investment on

third-party tools. In a multi-cloud environment, data security is a shared responsibility of the cloud vendor and the user. While in a hybrid cloud

environment, you have more responsibilities and control over data, applications, and security. Financially, every cloud has its benefits and

drawbacks, along with associated price tags. Performance analysis of existing workloads against service offerings provided by each public cloud

can help you get an idea of the total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI); guiding you to make the right choice for your

organization.

Choosing the right cloud model can be tricky. But with the right cloud implementation partner, like LogicBulls, navigating the cloud environment

gets simpler. LogicBulls helps business leaders identify the right cloud model by using an industry-proven framework and custom approach to

enable the initial assessment of workloads for cloud suitability. We evaluate application environments to assess the treatment of applications in

the cloud and maximize its business value.

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Hybrid and Multi-Cloud - Same or Different?

Hybrid Cloud

It is a centralized identity across multiple environments, having one or

more private or on-prem traditional datacenter with high-speed

connectivity, integrated security, and data integration capabilities. It

allows applications to run between public and private clouds, seamlessly.

Additionally, this allows applications and data to move between public

and private clouds.

Multi-Cloud

It is a cloud infrastructure that is present on more than one public cloud,

with or without having a traditional on-prem / data center. The

multi-cloud environment may or may not have interconnectivity or

integration among public and private clouds.

Although used interchangeably, a hybrid cloud is not the same as a multi-cloud. The key difference lies in its applications and data integration capabilities from a

connectivity, security and portability standpoint.

PublicCloud 2

Private Cloud

Public Cloud 1

Private or Traditional Datacenter

The key to success with both the deployments is the holistic management of all your resources as if they were at one location. Managing resources in their

respective cloud, without considering adjacent environments, will result in wasted capacity and budget. To achieve your desired business outcomes you'll need

deep visibility and insights into your multi-cloud or hybrid environment.

Private Cloud

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Successful cloud adoption requires careful analysis of workloads to identify the treatment of

applications in the cloud (rehost, re-architect, refactor, recode or replatform), network design and

architecture, and its ability to integrate the dependencies of public or private cloud supported by

a realistic implementation plan.

LogicBulls brings in years of expertise in developing multi-cloud strategies, managing multi-cloud

infrastructure, and deploying Anthos for seamless migration. Our team of experts and client

stakeholders have been helping clients with preliminary analysis, identifying cloud treatment for

applications landscape, defining the plans, identifying and mitigating risks for successful hybrid

and multi-cloud adoption. We adopt industry best practices and tools to efficiently control and

manage your multi-cloud environment.

A Typical Cloud Adoption Journey with Anthos:

1. Assess and Prioritize the workloads

2. Anthos Migrate

3. Anthos Transform

4. Enable continuous integration and continuous delivery

5. Secure workload and its ecosystem

Planning a Successful Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

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1. Assess and Prioritize the Workloads (Illustrative)

Positive business case for applications identified for Portfolio Optimization and Cloud Migration, using transition cost, one time investment and ongoing costs as per recommended target state for the applications

Current State Discovery & Assessment

Application Optimization & Cloud

Suitability Assessment

Cloud Migration Approach based on deployment

model

Target State Application Model

Cloud Migration Roadmap, Business

Case & Rollout

Application a

Compute

Storage

NetworkApplication b

Application c

Compute

Storage

Network

Application aIn cloud

Cloud

Application bIn cloud

Cloud

Application cIn Cloud

Cloud Delivery

Model(s)

IaaS

PaaS, GKE

SaaS

Re-architect

Refactor

Rehost

Replace

Cloud Service Model

RecodeHybrid

(with Anthos)

Private

Public

Retire

Effective cloud strategy involves assessment of existing workloads (i.e., web, database) for business value in the cloud. Treatment of workloads in the cloud take substantial effort, time and cost and hence its important to assess and prioritize the workloads before you take up your cloud journey. LogicBulls’ custom framework provides a strategic advantage wherein IT leaders can assess and work only on prioritized workloads.; greatly reducing assessment timelines.

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Prioritize workloads for Cloud in the order - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

2. Anthos Migrate

A. Carve Actionable Migration Journey

Most digital transformations will be a mix of strategies (i.e., hybrid, multi-cloud).

For the workloads that will benefit from containers, Migrate for Anthos delivers

a fast, smooth path to modernization. Don't settle for being locked into existing

infrastructure or one migration path. With Google, run your workloads how you

want, where you want. For other workloads that are better suited as a VM,

simply move them as is with Migrate for Compute Engine (Rehost).

C. Capitalize on the benefits of containers

With workloads upgraded to containers, IT can eliminate OS-level maintenance,

patching, and security like was previously needed for VMs. Plus, after upgrading,

businesses are well positioned to easily adopt even more technologies like

Anthos, GKE, Istio, and more.

B. Upgrade to Containers with Ease

Some workloads are simply written off by IT as "unable to upgrade." But Migrate

for Anthos strips away layers of manual effort, making migration and

modernization a possibility for those workloads, even with small IT teams. With

built-in testing and streaming migration technology that boots workloads in the

cloud quickly, you'll eliminate complexity and knowledge gaps that have previously

held businesses back from being able to modernize.

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Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

Anthos enables enterprises run applications in containers across multiple clouds: from your own datacenter on hyper scale public clouds including Google cloud, AWS (Beta) and Azure (future). Anthos is built on open source Kubernetes, Istio and KNative - the fundamental cloud native technologies developed and operated by Google Cloud.

Use Migrate for Anthos to move and convert workloads (i.e., web, MySQL database, Redis server, Nginx web server, a Ruby on Rails application, or cron jobs) directly into containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Target workloads can include physical servers and VMs running on-premises, in Compute Engine, or in other clouds, giving you the flexibility to transform your existing infrastructure with ease.

Please also refer https://cloud.google.com/anthos for more details

Anthos Stack Architecture - Overview

GKE On-Prem GKE - Google Cloud

Google Source Repositories

Google Cloud Build

Google Container Registry

Public Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure)

On-Prem / Private Cloud

Hub/Connect

Service Mesh (CSM)

Config/Policy Management

Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

API

Stackdriver

Container

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Hybrid cloud implementations tend to be complex due to the integration required between the on-prem data centers and the public cloud data centers. Concerns may arise about

network and internet security, complex bidirectional traffic routing, data access, provisioning requirements and many more. Hence, hybrid cloud implementations tend to require

several third-party tools and services depending upon the specific capabilities expected. Google Cloud’s Anthos simplifies hybrid cloud by bringing the necessary tools and services

together for a secure and scalable hybrid cloud implementation.

App App AppApp

GCP Build Toolchain Google Cloud Marketplace

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Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

Workload Performance

3. Anthos Transform

When it comes to assessing workloads for Anthos (GKE), it is critical for an enterprise to understand:

● Workload performance requirements

● Mapping of performance to compute resources (i.e., PODS)

● Enable scalability and efficiency

● Auditing and logging of transactions

Cloud containers enable multi-cloud by providing application developers with a consistent environment for

application portability by abstraction. Kubernetes, a container orchestration tool, orchestrates millions of

containers every week, regardless of its location - public cloud, private cloud, or on-prem infrastructure.

Kubernetes automates application rollouts, updates, and rollbacks. It runs continuous health checks on

applications, automatically restarting containers that fail or have stalled. Thus, developers can focus on

functionalities instead of grappling with different cloud environments. While enterprises are freed from

vendor lock-ins. Based on organizational growth and cloud usage, the tool automatically upscales or

downscales applications.

LogicBulls has years of experience in planning, implementing, and successfully rehosted or refactored

applications for the cloud. Containerized applications can be virtually deployed on any operating system and

environment: bare metal, private cloud, or public cloud.

Resource Cost

Resource Utilization

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Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

LogicBulls guides the transformation of your IT environment with Migrate for Anthos. We simplify the migration of all target workloads (physical servers/VMs) to the cloud quickly and with minimal upfront downtime.

One key aspect to keep in mind is that migrating your apps or workloads to the cloud isn’t just about shifting where the compute resources run; it’s also an opportunity to modernize them with containers. Microservices, containers, dockers, and Kubernetes provide applications the agility and portability for seamless application modernization and migration.

Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

Different components before and after migration in the VM

Source : Anthos for Migrate presentations

3. Anthos Transform

Anthos configuration management enables CI/CD deployments for complex builds. It provides configuration-as-code via Anthos Config Management, which deploys the Anthos Config Management Operator to your GKE or GKE on-prem clusters; allowing you to monitor and apply any configuration changes detected in a Git repo.

At LogicBulls, we practice agile and DevOps models to deploy a structured CI/CD. We have several years of hands-on experience of designing and deploying hybrid cloud

environment and continuous cost optimization. Through a structured process, we guide businesses to understand the issues that arise with CI/CD in terms of skills, resources,

tools, and processes.

Key benefits:

● Single source of truth, control, and management for easier code reviews, validation, automated testing, rollouts, and rollback workflows

● One-step deployment across all clusters by turning a single Git commit into multiple kubectl commands across all clusters

● Rich inheritance model for applying changes by creating a layered Namespace model that allows for configuration inheritance across the repo folder structure.

● Permissioned access to sensitive data ensuring regulatory compliance.

4. Enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

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Planning a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

5. Secure Workloads with Anthos

Modern apps differ from traditional apps in three key attributes: microservices architecture, declarative configuration, and high degrees of automation. However, without a way to

enforce consistency and manage workloads that span environments, your organization can face security challenges during application modernization. Through years of experience,

and multiple cloud migration projects, LogicBulls has identified three key security challenges that emerge with modern apps:

● Applying consistent policies across heterogeneous environments

● Securing the software supply chain

● Securing multi-tenant environments across a shared platform

● Auditing and logging of events and transactions

Enforcing policies across the environments

We deploy Anthos Config Management to

create a common configuration for all your

admin policies and apply it to all your

clusters wherever deployed. By automating

and scaling policy creation, rollout, audit,

and enforcement continuously across all

Anthos environments, your developers can

execute as fast as the business requires

while staying within the guardrails put in

place by security.

Deploying only trusted workloads

When enterprise uses Anthos, they benefit

from the native vulnerability scanning

capabilities of Container Registry. It looks

for known vulnerabilities (based off the

Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE)

database). Having knowledge of image

vulnerabilities prior to deployment, enables

your developers and operators to prevent

patchable and potentially high-risk images

from being deployed into production.

Isolating workloads with different risk profiles

Containers with different risk profiles can share

the same host kernel or cluster of machine

nodes. You need to isolate and segment your

apps with different risk profiles running on this

shared infrastructure so that only authorized

services can communicate with each other and

access intended resources.

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Planning A Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption

Auditing and Logging with Stackdriver

Stackdriver enables filtering the logs to just the

entries you need to export, creating an export

to a destination of your choice and setting up a

processing pipeline if the logs need to be

normalized.

Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

provides out-of-the-box dashboards that allow

us to select the view we want — focusing on

the infrastructure, workloads, and services.

Adoption Risks and Challenges

Despite its many benefits, hybrid and multi-cloud cloud brings in some adoption risks and challenges

such as:

● Insufficient due-diligence around cybersecurity (threats, vulnerabilities, and risks)

● Managing multiple cloud service providers

● Complexities around scalability and workload dependency

● Erratic workload analysis for Kubernetes vs. other options (technical, functional or financial)

● Managing total cost of ownership

● The complexity of the systems further strain IT teams

LogicBulls understands the pitfalls of any cloud adoption and migration journey. Our proactive

approach, custom templates, learnings from previous projects, and years of knowledge of our

subject matter experts mitigate the risks and ensure seamless cloud adoption.

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Anthos Platform: Cost - Benefits Analysis

Improved Productivity for Dev And Security

Anthos enables faster application development, testing, and deployment. It reduces time spent on non-coding activities by 28-38% which also means less human error and consistency in deploying your applications. Anthos enables consistent, unified security policy creation and enforcement.

Streamlined Operational and Migration Efficiencies

Anthos can help improve the user experience, speed, consistency, and security of application modernization, development, monitoring, and management. It reduces time spent on platform management by 40% to 55%, reduces time to migrate apps by 58% to 75%, and reduces release and patching effort by 90% to 97.5%.

Increased Customer Advocacy and Performance

Not only can Anthos reduce bottom-line costs, it can also enhance customer experience and accelerate business velocity — driving top-line financial sales lift. It increases revenue by 0.1% to 0.7% via customer advocacy and increases retention by reducing application downtime events by 20% to 60%.

Upto 38% reduction in

time spent on non-coding

activities

Upto 55% reduction in

time spent on platform

management

Increased revenue upto

0.7% and significant

reduction in downtime

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*Source: A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study Commissioned By Google November 2019

According to Forrester, Anthos adoption improves productivity, brings operational efficiencies, and increases customer advocacy. With Logicbulls as an implementation partner, organizations can leverage the benefits of Anthos and collect on their cloud ROI. We achieve this with systematic Google cloud planning, design, and implementation.

Logicbulls leverages its proven approach, custom framework, and trusted methodology to first assess and fully understand your technology landscape. With preliminary

analysis, we can build a customized plan, ensuring end-to-end integration of complex workflows, enablement of teams, and provide visibility into platform performance

metrics. Our cloud adoption expertise is supported via:

● A global pool of experts and GCP-certified engineers

● On-site CTO and Advisory Services for key clients

● Proactive 24*7 LeanOps Monitoring Platform for multi-cloud environments

● Proven practices and frameworks that improve agility and ensure timely delivery of projects

Irrespective of your business objective or your industry, we can help you design the right solution by leveraging a portfolio of services that Cloud Platform offers. Our

Google services, including Anthos implementation, grows and scales with your needs through ongoing optimization consulting. A flexible resource model enables

cost-effective value proposition for our clients without compromising quality service delivery.

We are small enough to engage and listen, but big enough to deliver complex programs. Our service capabilities include:

● Business Technology Consulting

● Anthos Migration and Development

● Cloud-Native Development

● Cloud Managed Services

● Workplace Transformation

Modernize, Migrate and Build Applications with Logicbulls and Google Cloud

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