One of your deployed applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is having intermittent performance issues. Your team uses a third-party logging solution. You want to install this solution on each

Question

Options

• ADeploy the third-party solution as a DaemonSet
• BModify your container image to include the monitoring software
• CUse SSH to connect to the GKE node, and install the software manually
• DDeploy the third-party solution using Terraform and deploy the logging Pod as a Kubernetes

• A
  71% (29)
• B
  15% (6)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  10% (4)

Explanation

A DaemonSet is the Kubernetes primitive designed exactly for this use case: it guarantees that one instance of a specified pod runs on every node in the cluster (or a subset via node selectors). When nodes are added to the cluster, the DaemonSet automatically schedules the pod on the new node; when nodes are removed, the pod is garbage collected. This makes it the standard pattern for deploying node-level agents like logging daemons, monitoring agents, and security scanners. Modifying container images (B) couples application code to infrastructure concerns. Manual SSH installs (C) are not repeatable or scalable. Deploying a single logging Pod via Terraform (D) would only run on one node, not all nodes.

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