How Google Turned Kubernetes into a Control Plane to Manage GCP Resources

Almost a year ago, I wrote an article highlighting the transformation of Kubernetes into a universal control plane. The cloud native community has been making steady progress in that direction.

The maturity of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) made it possible to bring external resource management into the Kubernetes fold. The Virtual Kubeletproject from Microsoft attempted to bridge the gap between the Kubernetes control plane and external resource schedulers such as IoT Hub and Container Instances. KubeVirt enabled the orchestration of VMs through Kubernetes scheduler and controller.

Google is making a big push of making Kubernetes the front and center of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Its hybrid cloud strategy based on Anthosrevolves around Kubernetes. Migrate for Anthos moves and converts workloads directly into containers that run in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

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