Question

Your team is deploying a new GKE cluster in a custom-mode VPC. Networking requirements state that Pod IPs must be natively routable within the VPC, that Pods must integrate with container-native load balancing using Network Endpoint Groups, and that the cluster should not consume the VPC's route table quota as it scales to thousands of nodes. Which cluster networking configuration meets all of these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A VPC-native cluster using alias IP ranges backed by a secondary range on the subnet

Answer

A routes-based cluster that creates a static route per node for Pod CIDRs

Answer

A routes-based cluster with IP masquerade enabled so Pod traffic uses node IPs

Answer

A VPC-native cluster with Pod IPs assigned from the subnet's primary range