March 30, 2021

A first look at GKE Autopilot

48 minutes

Welcome to The Verifa Podcast, where we break down the complex world of Cloud and DevOps.

In the very first episode of The Verifa Podcast, we take a first look at Google’s new Autopilot for Kubernetes - GKE Autopilot. GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operations for managing Kubernetes, enabling the user to focus on software, while GKE Autopilot manages the infrastructure.

During this episode we discuss

What do we mean by a ‘managed’ Kubernetes service? [03:15]

What are the differences between GKE, AKS, EKS and Fargate? [05:16]

A fully managed Kubernetes vs Serverless approach [13:07 & 26:52]

- What does ‘severless’ really mean?

- Is Autopilot serverless?

Billing: GKE Standard vs GKE Autopilot [14:03]

When to use Autopilot and when not to? [36:34]

Are we going to use GKE Autopilot? [41:12]

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