NetFoundryがGoogle Cloud Platformに着手

NetFoundryは本日、Google Cloud Platform（GCP）マーケットプレイスでのゼロタッチネットワークアクセスプラットフォームの提供を発表しました。NetFoundry today announced the availability of its zero-touch network access platform on Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) marketplace. By making the service available on the GCP marketplace, NetFoundry is able to automate the process of spinning up and configuring cloud endpoints, enabling customers to get up and running in a matter of minutes. NetFoundry has already made its zero-trust networking platform available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) respective marketplaces. While GCP already offer zero-trust networking, NetFoundry CEO Gileal Zino explained that deploying a consistent zero-trust networking strategy across all of the clouds is critical as enterprises begin to embrace edge and multi-cloud deployments. “We’re betting on the future of continuous computing from edge to cloud and multi-cloud. Obviously, GCP is a big piece of that,” he said, in an interview with SDxCentral. “So, very excited to now be able to enable Google in a similar way that we’ve done with Azure and AWS.” Increased interest in Google Cloud drove the company to add additional support for the cloud provider, he added. “Within certain communities that we care about, developers are building applications for [artificial intelligence] or [augmented reality], for applications that have needs for both security and performance, and they’re greenfield-type applications that take advantage of edge, IoT, multi-cloud, that community,” Zino said. This isn’t just happening in Google Cloud but in Azure and AWS, he explained. “We believe you need to support all three to really give that community what they need.” Tangentially, Google today announced that it had successfully pushed its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to 15,000 nodes per cluster as part of a partnership with Bayer Crop Science. “With more enterprises adopting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we’ve been working to push the limits of a GKE cluster way beyond the supported limits — specifically, clusters with up to 15,000 nodes,” Google Cloud Product Manager Maciek Różacki and BCS Data Engineering Lead Rob Long wrote in a blog post. “This is the most supported nodes of any cloud-based Kubernetes service and three times the number of nodes supported by open-source Kubernetes.” According to Google, these large clusters are particularly useful for absorbing spikes in resource demand, batch processing, and internet-scale services. Additionally, large clusters are easier to manage. Google worked with BCS to test Kubernetes clusters larger than 5,000 nodes — the current limit. The agricultural vendor has been using GKE to inform decisions about which seeds to trial and eventually produce. Google Cloud plans to add support for 15,000 node clusters later this year.