Citrix ADC in partnership with Google Anthos: Modern app delivery and security for hybrid multi-cloud setups

DevOps approaches that are resilient and flexible are important to the success of digital transformation programs. Citrix is investing in providing DevOps, CloudOps, and SecOps teams with the tools they need to manage digital transformations, cloud migration, and app modernization.

There is no single path for cloud migrations, and main conditions such as cloud maturity, legislation, and compliance, among others, will result in diverse deployment methods. With its unified administration for infrastructure and apps, Google Anthos specializes in this field. Incorporating growing cloud-native processes like GitOps and continuous configuration, which Anthos already supports, provides IT organizations with new methods to manage infrastructure.

We’ll look at how you can use Citrix ADC with Google Anthos to offer consistent and dependable app delivery and security for hybrid and multi-cloud workloads by implementing enterprise cloud-native concepts in this series of blog posts.

Citrix ADCs may be coupled to form strong and flexible designs that extend beyond organizational borders. Dual-tier installations use high-capacity hardware or virtualized Citrix ADCs in the first tier to divide control between network operators and Kubernetes operators, with the second tier located within the Kubernetes cluster (using container-based Citrix ADCs).

Citrix ADC’s Tier-1 and Tier-2 features enable consistent and secure digital transformation from on-premises to the cloud. Citrix ADC provides improved agility, simplicity, and speed by employing a single code base for all form factors, independent of the kind of program (monolithic or microservices) and infrastructure. Managing hybrid and multi-cloud app delivery and security is simplified with important Citrix ADC capabilities such as autoscaling, global server load-balancing (GSLB), multi-cluster ingress, and Web App Firewall (WAF).

With a Google Cloud-backed control plane, Google Anthos combines infrastructure and app administration across on-premises, at the edge, and numerous public clouds for consistent operation at scale. Key capabilities such as enterprise-grade container orchestration and management, policy and configuration management, and service mesh aid in the adoption of Day 2 operations and the advancement of your DevOps pipeline.

In this program, we’ll go over several ideas and present completely working laboratories for the reader to try out. The source code for all labs will be made public in our Citrix Cloud-Native Networking hands-on tutorials. We will discuss the following topics:

• ADC autoscaling inside a GKE cluster based on user demand.
• Use Anthos Config Management to automate ADC Day 2 activities.
• Anthos Policy Controller and Citrix WAF provide security and policy enforcement.
• Using Citrix GSLB and Anthos Config Management, you can automate multi-cluster / multi-regional deployments and load balancing setups from inside GKE.
• Citrix Observability Exporter is used to export metrics and transactions from Citrix ADC.
• Automate Canary Deployment using Citrix Ingress Controller and Anthos Config Management.

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