Photo by Davide Ragusa on Unsplash Spoiler Alert! This blog is really about Vertical Pod Autoscaling and patching of kube-system workloads in GKE. It just might not sound like it at the start 😄 If you’re not interested in how I got there and just want to jump to the good stuff - I’ve summarised it at the bottom of the post. So, this all started because I wanted to try out Elasticsearch.