You might have heard a lot recently, concerning the adoption of hybrid architecture, for powering distributed systems and services. You might have even heard about Google's answer to modern hybrid and multi- cloud distributed systems and services management, called Anthos. But what exactly is an Anthos? Anthos is a hybrid and multi- cloud solution, powered by the latest innovations in distributed systems and service management software from Google. The anthem's framework rests on kubernetes and GKE on- Prem. This provides a foundation for an architecture, that's fully integrated, and has centralized management for a central control plane. That supports policy based application lifecycle delivery, across hybrid and multiple cloud environments. Anthos also provides a rich set of tools for monitoring and maintaining the consistency of your applications, across all of your network, whether on premises, in the cloud or in multiple clouds. Let's take a deeper look at this framework, as we build a modern hybrid infrastructure, stack step by step, with an ethos. First, let's look at Google kubernetes engine, on the cloud side of our hybrid network. Google kubernetes engine, is a managed production ready environment for deploying containerized applications, operate seamlessly with high availability and an run certified kubernetes. Thus ensuring portability across clouds and on premises, includes auto node repair, auto upgrade and auto scaling. And uses regional clusters for high availability with multiple control planes, and node storage replication across multiple zones. Its counterpart on the on premises side of our hybrid network is GKE on- Prem. GKE on- Prem, is a turnkey production grade conformance version of kubernetes, with the best practice configuration preloaded. Provides an easy upgrade path to the latest kubernetes releases that have been validated and tested by Google. Provides access to container services on Google cloud such as cloud build, container registry and cloud audit logs, integrates with S T O K native and cloud marketplace solutions. And ensures a consistent kubernetes version and experience, across cloud and on premises environments. Both google kubernetes engine and GKE on- Prem integrate with marketplace. So that all of the clusters in your network, whether on premises or in the cloud have access to the same repository of containerized applications. This allows you to use the same configurations on both sides of the network, which reduces time spent maintaining conformity between your clusters. You also spend less time developing applications, because of a right once replicates anywhere approach. Enterprise applications might use hundreds of microservices, to handle computing workloads. Keeping track of all these services and monitoring their health, can quickly become a challenge, Anthos service mesh and SDO open source service mesh. Take all of the guesswork out of managing and securing your microservices. These service mesh layers, communicate across the hybrid network using cloud Interconnect, to sync and pass their data. Cloud logging cloud monitoring are the built in logging and monitoring solutions for Google Cloud. Google Cloud's operations suite, offers a fully managed logging, metrics collection, monitoring, dash boarding and alerting solution, that watches all sides of your hybrid or multi cloud network. It's the ideal solution for customers wanting a single, easy to configure, powerful cloud based observe ability solution that also gives you a single pane of glass dashboard, to monitor all of your environments. Finally, Anthos configuration management provides a single authoritative source of truth for your cluster's configuration. This is kept in the policy repository, which is actually a git repository. The repository can be located on premises, or hosted in the cloud. The Anthos configuration management agents used the policy repository to enforce configurations locally in each environment, thus managing the complexity of owning clusters across environments. Anthos configuration management, also gives administrators and developers the ability to deploy code changes, with a single repository commit. And the option to implement configuration inheritance by using name spaces, which is a way to prevent naming and permissions collisions within your application. You can learn more about Anthos, by heading to cloud dot google dot com forward slash Anthos