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How Google built a 130,000-node GKE cluster

2026-07-15 12:10 UTC · HN (kubernetes) · read the source ↗ #kubernetes#scalability#gke
  • Platform/SRE — Learn: Valuable engineering case study on extreme-scale Kubernetes control plane constraints, scheduler behavior, and etcd limits — useful for informing architecture decisions on large clusters even if most won’t operate at this scale.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Learn: Illustrates the ceiling of managed Kubernetes scalability on GKE, which informs build-vs-buy decisions for large-scale platform strategies.
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