In this post, we are going to have a look at the free Anthos developer sandbox provided by the Google cloud platform (GCP) that was announced in November 2020. In the next 5 minutes, we will go over why you would use it and what benefits it can provide to you as a tool with cloud-native development in mind. We will take a look at the components used as well as the pros and cons of its features. First, let’s go over what Anthos is. And we don’t mean the autonomous area in northeastern Greece 🙂 As enterprise companies begin to adopt Kubernetes and get comfortable with using a wide range of managed, self-hosted or bare metals clusters to host their applications, maintenance/visibility can become tricky.