gcp gke adding node pool

First you need to create your GKE in standard mode (without Autopilot). In your GKE, click on Create then you select the option show here.

Please note: You can only add node pool to your GKE if it is not created in auto-pilot and you need GKE enterprise API to be enabled.

You can add additional node pool if you want. Otherwise configure the regions and then click "Create".

A default 3 nodes gets created.

After this has been provisioned.

Then you can add additional node pool

Then you can start configuring auto-scaling and node upgrade strategy

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