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“Anthos Enhances Hybrid Cloud Management But Presents Initial Setup Challenges”
“RBAC Integration and Uptime Stable, Third-Party Support and Updates Still Limited”
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The best thing about Anthos is the seamless hybrid consistency. It allows you to run GKE wherever you need it (your own servers, Google Cloud, other cloud providers, etc) and your developers can use the same tools/processes everywhere. It is really easy to update older, legacy applications with Anthos by using tools like Migrate. We automatically turned our virtual machines into containers on GKE without rewriting everything from scratch, which saved us a lot of time. Of course, it works seamlessly with Google Cloud Operations Suite including Google Cloud logging, monitoring, alerting, etc. This allows us to get a clear view of our apps across all environments, which simplifies troubleshooting and daily operations.
We liked the one sing-in and permission set up for all clusters with RBAC models. Also the config is git based and allows us to have a maintained version control of everything integrated int the tool. Uptime promised by google is great, we have not faced any problem regarding to these and not even our customers.
Easy cluster management, strong performance and reliability with deep integration with Google Cloud. Logging, monitoring, IAM and VPC integration feels seamless. It's easy to connect GKE to other GCP services without complicated configurations.
There is a steep learning curve which makes it feel like a brain teaser initially. It's not for beginners or small teams. There are a lot of features and open-source tech that require a high level of technical know-how and dedicated teams. It's pricey and billed based on vCPU blocks, which can get expensive. If you have monitoring, logging, CI/CD outside of Google, it may be difficult to integrate and you may need to adjust to Anthos's preferred methods.
Updates can break, and a missed patch has already caused some of our on-prem clusters to roll back. We had to learn and install a bunch of components before having it operative. Third-party ecosystem is not as rich as for kubernetes
Costs can add up with surrounding services. GKE itself is reasonably priced, but the surrounding services will add up quickly. Steep learning curve for beginners. Some features feel Google only.
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- SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER10B+ USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Anthos Enhances Hybrid Cloud Management But Presents Initial Setup Challenges
Anthos is a big step forward when dealing with hybrid/multi-cloud setups. It helps with consistency when managing apps across different places and helps us modernize older stuff and get features out faster. It helps us keep things like Kubernetes clusters organized and operating smoothly. But it can be difficult to get started (time and cost) due to the steep learning curve, but it's worth the investment. - SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER10B+ USDManufacturingReview Source
RBAC Integration and Uptime Stable, Third-Party Support and Updates Still Limited
Anthos allows us to have a management plane across our on-prem, cloud and cloud on Google. Policy control and service mesh integration saved us operations time. The tricky part is that once you get everything running: updating the clusters and keeping the config tool in sync with Google's updates still requires more manual work than we would like. Also we need to be careful about unexpected costs because we forgot to set limits (Would be nice to have some kind of warning) - SYSTEMS ENGINEER<50M USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Reliable, fast and easy to manage - just watch out for add-on costs.
My overall experience with Google Kubernetes Engine has been very positive. GKE makes managing Kubernetes clusters much easier than running them on-prem or manually in the cloud. - Senior Manager1B-10B USDMediaReview Source
Anthos Simplifies Multi-Cloud Operations but Presents Complex Initial Setup Challenges
Anthos provides a consistent, Kubernetes-based platform that simplifies hybrid and multi-cloud operations with strong security and governance. - DEVOPS<50M USDTravel and HospitalityReview Source
GKE Enables Seamless Kubernetes Cluster Creation and Smooth Upgrades for Admins
I have solid experience with GKE, upgrades and autoscaling is smooth. Many cool features are based on openSource projects in the background and the observability default view is amazing, no other cloud provider has that detail with zero-config.