Question

Your team runs a global service deployed to three regional GKE clusters (us, eu, asia). Currently a single Cloud Deploy pipeline promotes a release sequentially through each region as separate targets, which takes over an hour to reach all regions once a release is approved. The regions are independent and can safely receive the same release simultaneously. You need to reduce the total rollout time while keeping one release, one promotion action, and unified rollout status in Cloud Deploy. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Configure a multi-target in the delivery pipeline that references all three regional GKE clusters as child targets, and deploy to the multi-target in a single stage.

Answer

Create three separate Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines, one per region, and trigger all three from the same Cloud Build run after the artifact is built.

Answer

Keep the sequential pipeline but enable canary deployment on each target so each region rolls out faster.

Answer

Use a single target backed by an Anthos multi-cluster gateway and let the gateway fan out the Deployment to all three clusters.