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Your company uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a platform for all workloads. Your company has a single large GKE cluster that contains batch, stateful, and stateless workloads. The GKE cluster is
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Submitted by lukas.cz· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes
Question
Your company uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a platform for all workloads. Your company has a single large GKE cluster that contains batch, stateful, and stateless workloads. The GKE cluster is configured with a single node pool with 200 nodes. Your company needs to reduce the cost of this cluster but does not want to compromise availability. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate a second GKE cluster for the batch workloads only. Allocate the 200 original nodes across
- BConfigure CPU and memory limits on the namespaces in the cluster. Configure all Pods to have a
- CConfigure a HorizontalPodAutoscaler for all stateless workloads and for all compatible stateful
- DChange the node pool to use preemptible VMs.
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#GKE#HorizontalPodAutoscaler#cost optimization#cluster autoscaling