As we have seen in the previous chapters, Anthos is a modern application platform that provides a consistent development and operations experience for cloud and hybrid environments. In this chapter, you will get an overview of the main layers of the platform and the main functionalities. Figure 6.1 illustrates the Anthos components and features and how they provide Anthos’s functionality across your environments, from infrastructure management to supporting application development.
For the developer, Anthos provides a state-of-the-art container management platform based on Kubernetes. Developers can use this platform to quickly and easily build and deploy existing container-based applications and microservices-based architectures. The key benefits to developers include the following: