Points to remember

The following are some important points to remember:

• GKE is fully managed, uses a container-optimized OS, and supports autoscaling, the auto-repair of nodes, and auto-upgrades.
• GKE supports two modes of operations – Standard and Autopilot.
• GKE Standard mode supports VPC-native traffic routing and HTTP load balancing as default options.
• Cloud operations for GKE are enabled as a default setting.
• A private Kubernetes engine cluster cannot be accessed publicly.
• A node pool represents a group of nodes with the same configuration.
• By default, a new node pool runs the latest Kubernetes version and can be configured for auto-upgrade or can be manually upgraded.
• Node pools in a regional or multi-zonal cluster are replicated to multiple zones.
• A multi-zonal cluster will only have a single replica of the control plane.
• A regional cluster has multiple replicas of the control plane running across multiple zones in a region.
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