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Google Kubernetes Engine

Managed Kubernetes with Autopilot.

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Overview

GKE provides managed Kubernetes clusters in Standard or Autopilot mode with workload identity, image streaming and integrated logging.

When to use it

  • Container platforms running multiple QA services
  • Selenium/Playwright grids at scale
  • Service-mesh based contract testing

Setup

  1. Enable Kubernetes Engine API.
  2. Create cluster: `gcloud container clusters create-auto qa --region=us-central1`.
  3. Get credentials: `gcloud container clusters get-credentials qa --region=us-central1`.

How to use

Deploy
kubectl apply -f playwright-grid.yaml
Run a one-shot job
kubectl create job nightly-regression --image=gcr.io/PROJECT/tests:latest

QA use cases

  • Autoscaling Selenium grid using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler driven by queue depth.
  • Run chaos experiments with Chaos Mesh in a non-prod GKE cluster.