Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
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Managing a GKE Multi-tenant Cluster with Namespaces
This lab explores best practices in managing and monitoring a multi-tenant cluster in order to optimize your costs.
Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE Virtual Machines
In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to determine and select the the most cost effective machine type for a GKE application. You will also explore the pros and cons of a multi-zonal cluster.
Understanding and Combining GKE Autoscaling Strategies
In this lab you will explore the benefits of different Google Kubernetes Engine autoscaling strategies, like Horizontal Pod Autoscaling and Vertical Pod Autoscaling for pod-level scaling, and Cluster Autoscaler and Node Auto Provisioning for node-level scaling.
GKE Workload Optimization
This lab demonstrates how optimization in your cluster's workloads can lead to an overall optimization of your resources and costs. It walks through a few different workload optimization strategies such as container native load balancing, application load testing, readiness and liveness probes, and pod disruption budgets.
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine: Challenge Lab
This lab offers a series of challenges that involve deploying, scaling, and maintaining a cluster application while optimizing resource usage.