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Submitted by hans_de· Apr 18, 2026Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service

Question

You are performing a semi-annual capacity planning exercise for your flagship service. You expect a service user growth rate of 10% month-over-month over the next six months. Your service is fully containerized and runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard regional cluster on three zones with cluster autoscaler enabled. You currently consume about 30% of your total deployed CPU capacity, and you require resilience against the failure of a zone. You want to ensure that your users experience minimal negative impact as a result of this growth or as a result of zone failure, while avoiding unnecessary costs. How should you prepare to handle the predicted growth?

Options

  • AVerify the maximum node pool size, enable a horizontal pod autoscaler, and then perform a load
  • BBecause you are deployed on GKE and are using a cluster autoscaler, your GKE cluster will
  • CBecause you are at only 30% utilization, you have significant headroom and you won't need to
  • DProactively add 60% more node capacity to account for six months of 10% growth rate, and then

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#GKE Scaling#Capacity Planning#Resilience#Load Testing
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