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Multi-zonal and regional clusters

Resiliency is one of the primary concerns when deploying and operating enterprise-scale workloads. Having the ability to deploy workloads to multiple zones and regions is a big part of what makes resiliency possible. For instance, you might deploy some workloads to Us-central1-a and Us-central1-b, as shown in the following diagram:

GKE currently allows for clusters to be deployed to either a single zone, multiple zones, or to a region. Deploying a cluster to a region translates to deploying that cluster to every zone within that region.

Much akin to the supporting Kubernetes system, GKE is designed to orchestrate ...