Google Exam Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Topic 12 Question 58 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam

Question #: 58
Topic #: 12

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You deployed an application into a large Standard Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application is stateless and multiple pods run at the same time. Your application receives inconsistent traffic. You need to ensure that the user experience remains consistent regardless of changes in traffic. and that the resource usage of the cluster is optimized.

What should you do?

AConfigure a cron job to scale the deployment on a schedule.

BConfigure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

CConfigure a Vertical Pod Autoscaler.

DConfigure cluster autoscaling on the node pool.

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Suggested Answer: B

by Bok at Dec 13, 2023, 12:37 AM

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Lon

8 months ago

Definitely, the HPA is the clear winner here. Although the cluster autoscaling option might work as well, it's overkill for this scenario and would involve more complexity than necessary.

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Mona

8 months ago

Yeah, the HPA is definitely the way to go. A cron job to scale the deployment on a schedule wouldn't be flexible enough to handle the inconsistent traffic, and the Vertical Pod Autoscaler is more for scaling the resources of individual pods, not the overall deployment.

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Moira

8 months ago

I agree, the HPA sounds like the most appropriate solution here. It can dynamically scale the number of pods up and down based on the resource utilization, which should help maintain a consistent user experience even with fluctuating traffic.

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8 months ago

B) Configure a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.

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