Compute and Container Services Flashcards
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A company runs a legacy application on physical servers and wants to migrate to GCP with minimal refactoring. Which compute option is most appropriate?
Answer: Compute Engine VMs
Compute Engine provides full control over VM configuration, making it the best choice for lift-and-shift migrations of legacy applications.
Which App Engine environment automatically scales to zero instances when no traffic is received?
Answer: App Engine Standard
App Engine Standard can scale to zero instances during periods of no traffic, reducing costs, while Flexible maintains at least one instance.
A GKE workload requires access to a Cloud Storage bucket. What is the recommended way to grant this permission without using service account keys?
Answer: Use Workload Identity to bind a Kubernetes service account to a GCP service account
Workload Identity is the recommended approach for GKE pods to authenticate as a GCP service account without managing key files.
What is the purpose of Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) in Compute Engine?
Answer: Provide discounts in exchange for a 1-year or 3-year commitment to use specific resources
Committed Use Discounts offer up to 57% discount on Compute Engine resources in exchange for committing to use them for 1 or 3 years.
Which Cloud Run feature allows you to deploy Cloud Run services within a VPC for private access to internal resources?
Answer: Cloud Run Direct VPC Egress
Cloud Run Direct VPC Egress allows Cloud Run services to send traffic directly into a VPC without needing a Serverless VPC Access connector.
A Kubernetes deployment on GKE needs to ensure pods are spread across multiple zones for high availability. Which feature achieves this?
Answer: Topology Spread Constraints
Topology Spread Constraints control how pods are distributed across topology domains like zones, ensuring high availability.
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