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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER · Question #64
Your company runs an ecommerce website built with JVM-based applications and microservice architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application load increases during the day and decreases…
The correct answer is D. Configure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and enable the cluster autoscaler. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cluster-autoscaler?hl=es-419 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/#support-for-metrics-
Submitted by chen.hong· Apr 18, 2026Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Question
Your company runs an ecommerce website built with JVM-based applications and microservice architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application load increases during the day and decreases during the night. Your operations team has configured the application to run enough Pods to handle the evening peak load. You want to automate scaling by only running enough Pods and nodes for the load. What should you do?
Options
- AConfigure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler, but keep the node pool size static.
- BConfigure the Vertical Pod Autoscaler, and enable the cluster autoscaler.
- CConfigure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, but keep the node pool size static.
- DConfigure the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and enable the cluster autoscaler.
How the community answered
(53 responses)- A17% (9)
- B4% (2)
- C8% (4)
- D72% (38)
Explanation
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cluster-autoscaler?hl=es-419 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/#support-for-metrics-
Topics
#GKE Scaling#Horizontal Pod Autoscaler#Cluster Autoscaler#Kubernetes
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