Question

A retail company runs a single production application on one GKE cluster in a single Google Cloud region. The DevOps team wants to reduce the effort of manually applying Kubernetes updates, node provisioning, and infrastructure tuning for this one cluster, while staying on standard Kubernetes. They are not managing on-premises or multi-cloud clusters. Which approach best fits their needs?

Accepted Answer

Migrate the workload to GKE Autopilot mode to let Google manage nodes, provisioning, and infrastructure operations

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Adopt GKE Enterprise to centrally manage the cluster across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

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Move the application to Compute Engine managed instance groups with autoscaling

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Deploy the application to Cloud Run to eliminate all Kubernetes concepts