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You have a single binary application that you want to run on Google Cloud Platform. You decided to automatically scale the application based on underlying infrastructure CPU usage. Your organizational
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Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 30, 2026Deploying and implementing a cloud solution
Question
You have a single binary application that you want to run on Google Cloud Platform. You decided to automatically scale the application based on underlying infrastructure CPU usage. Your organizational policies require you to use virtual machines directly. You need to ensure that the application scaling is operationally efficient and completed as quickly as possible. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, and use horizontal pod autoscaling to scale the
- BCreate an instance template, and use the template in a managed instance group with autoscaling
- CCreate an instance template, and use the template in a managed instance group that scales up
- DUse a set of third-party tools to build automation around scaling the application up and down,
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Topics
#managed instance group#autoscaling#instance template#CPU utilization