I previously documented how to add spare capacity to an Autopilot Kubernetes cluster, whereby you create a placeholder Deployment to provision some scheduling headroom. This works to constantly give you a certain amount of headroom, so for example if you have a 2vCPU placeholder (a.k.a. balloon) Dep| William Denniss
GKE Autopilot is deployed using the regional cluster architecture. This has a number of advantages such as giving you 3 master nodes for high availability of the control plane, and the ability to spread pods among zones for high availability of your workloads. But sometimes this may be more than wha| William Denniss
You can use topology spread constraints to control how Pods are spread across your cluster among failure-domains such as regions, zones, nodes, and other user-defined topology domains. This can help to achieve high availability as well as efficient resource utilization. You can set cluster-level constraints as a default, or configure topology spread constraints for individual workloads. Motivation Imagine that you have a cluster of up to twenty nodes, and you want to run a workload that autom...| Kubernetes
