Hello, my name is Arthur and welcome to my course, "An Introduction to Developing on Anthos". Anthos is still very new, it's built on a broad scope of modern cloud technologies, and it's difficult to compare it directly to existing server infrastructure models. This can all make Anthos seem like a big scary enterprise monstrosity at first glance. With this course, I'll show you how Anthos is nothing to be afraid of, and we'll tame the beast together by building a simple DevOps workflow using Anthos on Google Cloud Platform.

This course is intended for software developers who want to expand their understanding of modern-cloud based development practices. This means we'll be focusing more on the Development and less on the Operations side of Anthos throughout this course. There are some great features in Anthos for the Ops team that we'll talk about briefly in the first lecture group, but we won't be utilizing them during our demos. The viewer of this course is only assumed to have some level of knowledge and experience in one or more programming languages. No background knowledge in cloud technologies, networking, CI/CD pipelines, or DevOps workflows is assumed or required. Any programmer using Visual Studio Code should be able to follow along with the demos in this course and learn how to deploy their own code on Anthos.

In the first lecture group, we'll learn more about all of the components that make up Anthos. We'll also compare Anthos to other hosting solutions you may already be more familiar with, so we understand how they are all really connected, and how that's really the entire point of Anthos. In the second lecture group, we'll home in on the particular components that we need to work with most directly when writing code to run on Anthos. In the final lecture group, we'll get hands-on and actually write and deploy code to a production Anthos environment on Google Cloud Platform.

Anthos is an enterprise grade solution, and costs accordingly. The first time you access Anthos from the Google Cloud console, you'll have an option to start a 30-day free trial which should be more than enough to complete this course. Notice that this free trial is just for Anthos itself, and there will still be some costs for the actual infrastructure we are using with Anthos. Please remember to delete your demo resources and disable Anthos after you have completed the course to minimize your project expenses.

If you have any questions or need any help at any point during this course, please contact support@cloudacademy.com. After completing the course, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate your experience.