autopilot

GCP: determining whether GKE cluster mode is Standard or Autopilot


Categories: Hyperscaler

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 … GCP: determining whether GKE cluster mode is Standard or Autopilot

GCP: Private GKE cluster in Autopilot mode using Terraform


Categories: Containers, Hyperscaler

GKE Autopilot reduces the operational costs of managing GKE clusters by freeing you from node level maintenance, instead focusing just on pod workloads.  Costs are accrued based on pod resource consumption and not on node resource sizes or node count, which are managed by Google. Since you no longer own the node level, there are … GCP: Private GKE cluster in Autopilot mode using Terraform