What is Anthos?
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Anthos is Google's hybrid and multi-cloud application platform that enables organizations to build and manage applications consistently across on-premises data centers, GCP, AWS, and Azure. Built on Kubernetes and Istio. Key components: GKE on-premises (GKE Enterprise): run GKE clusters on VMware or bare metal. Anthos Service Mesh: managed Istio for service-to-service communication policies, mTLS, and observability. Anthos Config Management: GitOps — sync Kubernetes configurations from a Git repository across all clusters. Cloud Run for Anthos: run Cloud Run workloads on any Anthos cluster. Migrate to Containers: modernize VMs into containers. Anthos solves the "stranded workloads" problem — organizations with on-premises investments can adopt cloud-native practices without a full cloud migration.