Google Cloud Introduces Service Directory

Simplify service management and operations

Service Directory reduces the complexity of management and operations by providing unified visibility for all your services across cloud and on-premises environments. And because Service Directory is fully managed, you get enhanced service inventory management at scale with no operational overhead, increasing the productivity of your DevOps teams. At the same time, advanced permission capabilities let you ensure that only the correct principals (users and applications) are able to update this information or look up services, freeing service developers from worrying about accidentally impacting other services.

Connecting hybrid and multi-cloud services at scale

With Service Directory, you can easily understand all your services across multi-cloud environments. This includes workloads running in Compute Engine VMs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), as well as external services running on-prem and third-party clouds. It increases application reachability by maintaining the endpoint information for all your services. Service Directory lets you define services with metadata, allowing you to group services, while making your endpoints easily understood by your consumers and applications. Customers can use Service Directory to register different types of services and resolve them securely over HTTP and gRPC. For DNS clients, customers can leverage Service Directory’sprivate DNS zones, a feature that automatically updates DNS records as services change. 

Let’s connect

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