If you need to determine at the CLI whether a GKE cluster is managed using Standard or Autopilot mode, this is available by using gcloud to describe the cluster.
# identify cluster and location gcloud container clusters list cluster_name=<clusterName> location_flag="--region=<region>" # OR --zone=<zone> # returns 'True' if GKE AutoPilot cluster # returns empty if standard GKE cluster gcloud container clusters describe $cluster_name $location_flag --format="value(autopilot.enabled)"
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