A team runs a production workload on GKE. The workload experiences periodic spikes in CPU usage, and the team wants to ensure that the number of replicas automatically adjusts to handle the load without manual intervention. They also want to set a hard limit on the maximum number of replicas to control costs. Which resource should they create?

A VerticalPodAutoscaler with a maxReplicas value.

A HorizontalPodAutoscaler with a minReplicas and maxReplicas value.

A ResourceQuota with a maxReplicas value.

A PodDisruptionBudget with a minAvailable value.

What is the primary purpose of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in GKE?

To automatically adjust the number of pod replicas based on observed metrics

To automatically restart unhealthy containers

To resize the virtual machines in a node pool

To distribute traffic evenly across nodes

What is the primary purpose of a Kubernetes liveness probe?

To control when a pod receives network traffic

To scale the number of pods based on CPU usage

To route traffic to a pod only after it is fully started

To restart a container when it becomes unhealthy

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A team runs a production workload on GKE. The workload experiences periodic spikes in CPU usage, and the team wants to ensure that the number of replicas automatically adjusts to handle the load without manual intervention. They also want to set a hard limit on the maximum number of replicas to control costs. Which resource should they create?
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What is the primary purpose of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in GKE?
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Which Kubernetes probe type is used to detect and restart a container that has entered an unrecoverable state, such as a deadlock?
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What is the primary purpose of a Kubernetes liveness probe?
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In a Kubernetes Deployment manifest, which field specifies the number of pod replicas to run?
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What is the primary purpose of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in GKE?

Which Kubernetes probe type is used to detect and restart a container that has entered an unrecoverable state, such as a deadlock?

What is the primary purpose of a Kubernetes liveness probe?

In a Kubernetes Deployment manifest, which field specifies the number of pod replicas to run?

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