In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability (GA) of Anthos on bare metal, a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by the customer, without a hypervisor layer. With Anthos on bare metal, customers can leverage their existing hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure investments.

Google released Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) over a year ago. With Anthos, the company wanted to provide customers with the freedom to deploy, run, and manage their applications on the cloud of their choice, without requiring administrators and developers to learn different environments and APIs. Now with the bare metal option, customers have more choice and flexibility over where to deploy applications in the public cloud, on-prem or at the edge.

According to the blog post, the minimal requirement for customers to run Anthos on bare metal at the edge is two nodes with a minimum of four cores, a2 GB RAM, and 128GB of disk space with no specialized hardware. Furthermore, customers can choose their operating system too, with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1/8.2, CentOS 8.1/8.2, and Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 LTS.

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