VM

Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual ...

[assessment tool](https://cloud.google.com/migrate/containers/docs/fit-assessment#how_the_tool_works) for its customers to determine if Athos is the right technology for their VM workloads. Virtual Machines run the world, so it is a crucial move for Google to expand support in Anthos beyond Kubernetes to VMs. Furthermore, tools are available to manage VMs with logs and metrics within the [Google Cloud operations suite](https://cloud.google.com/products/operations), including straight out-of-the-box dashboards and alerts. [Holger Mueller](https://twitter.com/holgermu), principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research Inc., told InfoQ: [KubeVirt technology](https://kubevirt.io/) - designed for those who want to use Kubernetes but have existing VM-based workloads that are difficult to containerize. With additional support for Virtual Machines in GDC, Google states that the service will provide consistent container and VM operations with Kubernetes-style declarative configuration and policy enforcement.