You are developing an external-facing application on GKE that provides a streaming API to users. You want to offer two subscription tiers, "basic" and "premium", to users based on the number of API re

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Options

• A
  1. Configure the service on GKE as a backend to an Apigee proxy.
• B
  1. Configure the service on GKE as a backend to an Apigee proxy.
• C
  1. Configure the service on GKE as a backend to two new projects, each with a separate
• D
  1. Deploy the application to two GKE clusters, one for each subscription tier. Configure each

• A
  76% (19)
• B
  8% (2)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  12% (3)

Explanation

Apigee is Google's enterprise API management platform and is the recommended solution for enforcing per-consumer quotas and subscription tiers. When the GKE service is registered as an Apigee backend, you can create separate Apigee products ('basic' and 'premium') with different quota policies (e.g., 1,000 vs. 10,000 requests/day) and issue API keys per subscription tier. No application code changes are needed to enforce the limits. Option C (two separate projects) and Option D (two GKE clusters) are operationally expensive and duplicate infrastructure unnecessarily. Apigee centralizes this concern in one place, following Google-recommended API management practices.

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