Standard and Autopilot Modes in Google Kubernetes Engine

Kubernetes
is an open-source container orchestration tool, over a period of time its usage has increased rapidly, and many more companies began to adopt Kubernetes, which created a requirement to get Kubernetes as a managed service, so that companies can focus more on their applications, that’s where google Kubernetes engine comes in.

These are some of the components of a Kubernetes cluster you will have to understand in order to run/create a open-source Kubernetes cluster from scratch.

Control plane provisioning and management
Worker nodes provisioning and management.
Security and network configuration
Patching and upgrade
Monitoring
Scaling
Availability and Reliability

What is Google Kubernetes Engine?
Google Kubernetes Engine is a managed Kubernetes service provided by google cloud platform, it allows you to create a Kubernetes cluster quickly, with many of the above mentioned complex components deployed and managed by GCP, this allows you to focus more on developing and running the application on the managed Kubernetes cluster, rather than spending a lot of time in understanding and managing Kubernetes cluster itself.

Google Kubernetes Engine provides you two operation modes Standard mode and Autopilot mode, both autopilot mode and standard mode GKE clusters take some of the management overhead of Kubernetes clusters, each of them will also allow different level of interaction with Kubernetes cluster.

Standard mode in GKE
Standard mode will create control plane, deploy worker nodes and security, network configuration is also handled by GCP, but you need to manage the worker nodes of the Kubernetes cluster, like configuring autoscaling and managing upgrades, it provides you with all four dimensions of auto scaling, but you will have to manually configure auto scaling, here you will pay per node and the instance types that you select.
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