gke and anthos in 2021, a year of innovations

Before starting 2022, let’s highlight what was announced and released in 2021 around GKE and Anthos.

GKE #

• 1.17.14 to 1.21.6 went GA and 1.22.3 in Preview
• Autopilot
• Image Streaming
• Multi-cluster services
• Gateway controller
• Backup
• Cloud DNS
• Cost Optimization Metrics
• Internal TCP/UDP load balancer with Private Service Connect
• Authenticating with Identity Service

Google Cloud Platform Podcast - GKE turns 6!

Anthos #

• 1.5.3 to 1.9.2 went GA
• Bare metal 1.10
• VMware 1.10
• GKE on AWS and Azure GA
• VMs
• Distributed Cloud

Cloud Run for Anthos (CRfA) #

• 0.19 to 0.23 went GA
• Integration with ASM
• Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project

Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) #

• 1.6.14 to 1.12.0 went GA
• Managed Anthos Service Mesh (managed control plane + data plane)
• Distroless proxy image

Anthos Config Management (ACM) #

• 1.6.1 to 1.10.0 went GA
• Config Controller
• Helm and Kustomize support

Misc #

• GKE and containers - Top 10 blog posts of 2021
• The past, present, and future of Kubernetes with Eric Brewer
• A cloud built for developers — 2021 year in review
• Google’s CNCF contributions
• Anthos 101 learning series: All the videos in one place
• Cloud Deploy
• Managed Service for Prometheus
• 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report

That’s a wrap! More to come in 2022 for sure! Happy sailing! ;)