Anthos on Bare Metal

Overview

• Install GKE Enterprise clusters directly on your own hardware
  • Use of specialized hardware
• Use existing data centres
  • Anthos manages app deployment and health
  • More efficient operations
• Customized security

Deployment Models

• Admin clusters
  • Create, modify, manage and delete user clusters
• User clusters
  • Run workloads

Standalone

• Single cluster—both and admin and user cluster in one
• Best for:
  • Edge locations
  • Single teams and workload types

Multi-Cluster

• Admin cluster plus one or more user clusters
• Best for:
  • Team separation
  • Environment separation

Hybrid

• Admin cluster plus one or more user clusters
• Admin cluster also runs user workloads
• Created from pre-existing standalone clusters
• No security concerns about workloads running on the admin cluster

Operating

• Connect—component which associates Anthos on Bare Metal clusters with Google Cloud
  • Allows health of clusters to be visiable in Cloud Console