Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you

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Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

By Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Technical InfrastructureCloud Services Platform

Service mesh: Availability of Istio 1.0 in open source, Managed Istio, and Apigee API Management for Istio

Hybrid computing: GKE On-Prem with multi-cluster management

Policy enforcement: GKE Policy Management, to take control of Kubernetes workloads

Ops tooling: Stackdriver Service Monitoring

Serverless computing: GKE Serverless add-on and Knative, an open source serverless framework

Developer tools: Cloud Build, a fully managed CI/CD platform

The Cloud Services Platform family

“We needed a consistent platform to deploy and manage containers on-premise and in the cloud. As Kubernetes has become the industry standard, it was natural for us to adopt Kubernetes Engine on GCP to reduce the risk and cost of our deployments.”
- Dinesh KESWANI, Global Chief Technology Officer at HSBC Modernizing application architecture with IstioIstio, an open-source service mesh

Service discovery and intelligent traffic management—Managed Istio surfaces all the services running in your cluster and manages network traffic between them. Using application-level load balancing and sophisticated traffic routing for container and VM workloads, it also provides health checks, plus canary and blue/green deployments, enabling fault tolerant applications with circuit breaking and timeouts.

Secure, authenticated communications—Managed Istio offers segmentation and granular policy for endpoints, compliance and detecting anomalous behavior, and traffic encryption by default using mTLS.

Monitoring and management—Understand and troubleshoot the system of services running across Managed Istio, including integration with Stackdriver, our suite of monitoring and management tools.

Enterprise-grade Kubernetes, wherever you goKubernetes Engine managed service is battle-testedGKE On-Prem

Unified multi-cluster registration and upgrade management

Centralized monitoring and logging with Stackdriver integration

Hybrid Identity and Access Management

GCP Marketplace for Kubernetes applications

Unified cluster management for GCP and on-premise

Professional services and enterprise-grade support

Automatically take control of your Kubernetes workloadssign up here A service-centric view of your environment

Service graph: A real-time bird’s-eye visualization of the entire environment—see all your microservices, how they communicate, and their dependencies.

Service level objective (SLO) monitoring: Monitor and alert in the same customer-centric, low-toil manner as Google Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) do for our own services.

Service dashboard: All your signals for a given service are in a single place so that you can debug faster and easier than ever before and lower your mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).

When microservices become APIsApigee API Management Making cloud all it could be

GKE serverless add-on lets you run serverless workloads on Kubernetes Engine with a one-step deploy. You can go from source to containers amazingly fast, auto-scale your stateless container-based workloads, and even scale down to zero. Sign up for an early preview for the GKE serverless add-on here.

Knative (pronounced kay-nay-tiv), open-source serverless components from the same technology that enables the GKE serverless add-on. Knative lets you create modern, container-based and cloud-native applications by providing building blocks you need to build and deploy container-based serverless applications anywhere on Kubernetes.

Cloud Build is a fully-managed Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform that lets you build, test, and deploy software quickly, at scale.