GKE Autopilot is pretty magical. You create a cluster just by picking a region and giving it a name, schedule Kubernetes workloads and the compute resources are provisioned automatically. While Kubernetes is provisioning resources, your Pods will be in the Pending state. This is all well and good, except… there are other reasons that your… Continue reading GKE Autopilot: how to know if Pending pods will be scheduled
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Provisioning spare capacity in GKE Autopilot with placeholder balloon pods
Autopilot is a new mode of operation for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) where compute capacity is dynamically provisioned based on your pod’s requirements. Among other innovations, it essentially functions as a fully automatic cluster autoscaler. Update: GKE now has an official guide for provisioning spare capacity. When you deploy a new pod in this environment,… Continue reading Provisioning spare capacity in GKE Autopilot with placeholder balloon pods