Question

A startup wants to deploy a containerized stateless web API on Google Kubernetes Engine. The team has no dedicated infrastructure engineers and wants to avoid managing node pools, node sizing, and cluster capacity while still paying only for the resources their Pods actually request. Which GKE configuration best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Create a GKE Autopilot cluster and deploy the workload as a Deployment

Answer

Create a GKE Standard cluster with a manually sized node pool and disable autoscaling

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Create a GKE Standard cluster and enable the cluster autoscaler on a single node pool

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Create a GKE Standard cluster with node auto-provisioning and manually manage node images