Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash I’ve been running a short-term experiment across the GKE Compute options within my “Home Lab” (read: GCP-hosted Google Kubernetes Engine) with a view to optimise for a balance between ease of operation and cost efficiency. If that sounds useful to you, then by all means read on! Let’s dive right in with the Billing data. The chart below shows the view of costs over the course of my two-month experiment for this small GKE Cluster.