PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Question #104: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that are deployed following a GitOps methodology. Application developers frequently create cloud resources to support their applications. You want to give developers the ability to manage infrastructure as code, while ensuring that you follow Google-recommended practices. You need to ensure that infrastructure as code reconciles periodically to avoid configuration drift. What should you do?

Options

• AInstall and configure Config Connector in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• BConfigure Cloud Build with a Terraform builder to execute terraform plan and terraform apply
• CCreate a Pod resource with a Terraform docker image to execute terraform plan and terraform
• DCreate a Job resource with a Terraform docker image to execute terraform plan and terraform

Explanation

Config Connector is a Google-maintained Kubernetes add-on that lets developers manage Google Cloud resources (Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, etc.) using Kubernetes CRDs stored in Git. It continuously reconciles the declared desired state against actual GCP resource state, directly preventing configuration drift - which is the core requirement. This fits naturally into a GitOps workflow since all resource definitions live in source control. Options B, C, and D all involve Terraform but require external triggers or one-time Jobs; none provide the continuous, periodic reconciliation that Config Connector delivers natively.

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