Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Deploy, operate, and scale managed Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform. When to Use - Running containerized microservices at scale with automatic scaling and healing - Workloads requiring fine-grained orchestration, service mesh, or custom scheduling - Teams already invested in Kubernetes tooling (Helm, Argo CD, Flux) - When Cloud Run's request-based model does not fit (long-running, stateful workloads) Prerequisites - Google Cloud SDK ( ) and installed - APIs enabled: Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine - IAM role for cluster management Standard vs Autop…