Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Kubernetes engine enables rapid development by making it easy to deploy, manage, and scale applications. Learn from the VP of Engineering at both Google and WP Engine how WP Engine’s new solution for Headless WordPress, Atlas, leverages GCP to deliver the next generation of speed and flexibility for WordPress Developers.

2. Getting Started with Headless
and Google Cloud Platform
Chen Goldberg
VP, ENGINEERING, GOOGLE
@GOLDBERGCHEN
Brandon DuRette
VP, ENGINEERING, WP ENGINE
@BDURETTE

3. Performance and Scalability
Key Drivers for Headless Adoption
41%
PERFORMANCE
33%
SCALABILITY
SOURCE: The State of Headless: A global research report.

4. Atlas Overview
Git
Build
Serve
Develop & Deploy
Content
Engine
WordPress
Browser CDN
Node Engine
...

5. Serve
Headless Approaches — Full Static
Git
Build
Content
Engine
WordPress
Browser CDN
Node Engine
...
Develop & Deploy

6. Headless Approaches — Fully Dynamic
Git
Build
Serve
Develop & Deploy
Content
Engine
WordPress
Browser CDN
Node Engine
...

7. Headless Approaches — Incremental Static
Git
Build
Serve
Develop & Deploy
Content
Engine
WordPress
Browser CDN
Node Engine
...

8. Atlas Critical Capabilities
Fast Reliable Scalable

9. Atlas Critical Capabilities
Fastest Cloud Compute Available
Global Content Delivery Network
Content Engine
Fast

10. Regional Deployments
Redundancy & Automatic Recovery
99.99% Uptime SLA
Atlas Critical Capabilities
Reliable

11. Cross-zone Auto-scaling
Atlas Critical Capabilities
No more provisioning for peak load
Scalable

12. Atlas is powered by
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
ENTERPRISE CONTAINER MANAGEMENT SERVICE FROM Google
Google remains the largest contributor to Kubernetes and is seen as the industry
leader due to our investment and launch of ongoing new features leveraging Google
infrastructure
Scalable
Reliable
Fast Open

13. What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-
source platform for managing
containerized workloads and services, that
facilitates both declarative configuration and
automation

14. Kubernetes as an automation machine
Act
Observe
Diff

15. Powered by 15+ years of Google Innovation
April 2008
Google Cloud is
launched
LxC launched,
complete Linux
container manager
merged into the Linux
Kernel
Work begins to open
source Google’s Borg
as Kubernetes
The term “Cloud Computing”
enters the common vernacular.
Birth of Borg
3-4 Google Engineers
working to automate
cluster management
inside Google. Cloud Run
Anthos
gVisor
Process Containers
initiative to bring
containers to the
Linux kernel
Nov 2014
GKE Alpha
Istio
announced
Aug 2015
GKE GA
Envoy 1.0
GKE on Prem
Announced
July 2015
Kubernetes
1.0
Knative
announced
Istio 1.0
2003 2006 2008 2013 2015 2019
2018
Scheduling ~ Several BILLION
containers per week in 2020
across the entire Google
environment.
June 2014
First Github
commit for
Kubernetes
Innovation Timeline

16. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
MOST SCALABLE AND RELIABLE MANAGED SERVICE FOR
CONTAINERIZED APPS
▪ Google Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) Operated
▪ 99.95% regional SLA
▪ Secure by Default
▪ Only GKE can run 15,000 node clusters
▪ GKE is the industry-first to provide four-way auto-
scaling and multi-cluster support

17. Kubernetes in Atlas
Act
Observe
Diff
Automated Failure Recovery
Autoscaling
Deployment Automation

18. Want to learn more?
developers.wpengine.com
Atlas:
the Fast, Scalable, and Reliable Headless
platform
Kubernetes:
the Fast, Scalable, and Reliable cloud
platform
BUILT ON

19. Thank You
Brandon DuRette
VP, ENGINEERING, WP ENGINE
@BDURETTE
Chen Goldberg
VP, ENGINEERING, GOOGLE
@GOLDBERGCHEN