What is Anthos

It is a managed application platform for organisations like enterprises that require quick modernisation and certain levels of consistency for their legacy applications in a hybrid or multicloud world. From this explanation the core ideas can be drawn from these statements;

• Managed -> the customer does not need to worry about the underlying software integrations, they just enable the API.
• application platform -> It consists of open source tools like K8s, Knative, Istio and Tekton
• Enterprises -> these are usually organisations with complex needs
• Consistency -> to have the same policies declaratively initiated to be run anywhere securely e.g on-prem, GCP or other-clouds (AWS or Azure)

fun fact: Anthos is flower in greek, they grow in the ground (earth) but need rain from the clouds to flourish.