Google and Cisco release the result of a collaboration in the cloud-- the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud, a means for customers to develop, deploy, manage and secure applications across both on-premises and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The fully integrated solution allows developers leverage enterprise-grade Google Cloud capabilities, including managed Kubernetes, GCP Service Catalog, and Cisco networking and security. Authentication and service mesh monitoring comes via Istio, the open-source microservices management technology providing policy-based controls to discover, connect, secure and manage services in a microservices environment.
The Cisco Technical Assistance Centre (TAC) provides support, and it extends Cisco network and security policy and configurations while monitoring application behaviour across hybrid cloud environments. Customers can also use Google Apigee API management to let workloads running on-premise to connect to the cloud and Cisco Developer Centre tools in order to write code for hybrid environments.
Google says the hybrid solution is ideal for enterprises wanting to modernise on-premise applications. Technologies such as Kubernetes allow organisations to build and manage cloud-ready apps running on Cisco Hyperflex container-optimised infrastructure, while Istio provides implementation and central management of portable services.
The Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is available now.
