Introducing the Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot cluster
On February 24th, 2021, Google announced the general availability of their fully managed Kubernetes services, GKE Autopilot. It is a completely managed and serverless Kubernetes as a service offering. No other cloud provider currently offers this level of automation when managing the Kubernetes cluster on the cloud. Most cloud providers leave some cluster management for you, be it managing the control planes (API server, etcd, scheduler, and so on), worker nodes, or creating everything from scratch as per your needs.
GKE Autopilot, as the name suggests, is an entirely hands-off experience, and in most cases you only have to specify a cluster name and region, set the network if you want to, and that's it. You can focus on deploying your workloads and let Google fully manage your Kubernetes cluster. Google is offering 99.9% uptime for Autopilot pods in multiple zones. Even if you manage this yourself, you...
