Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
A company wants to use Cloud Deploy to automate deployments to GKE. They need to configure an approval gate that requires manual approval before promoting a release to a production cluster. Where is this approval gate defined?
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In the delivery pipeline YAML under the 'target' definition
In Cloud Deploy, approval gates are defined per target in the delivery pipeline configuration. The target resource specifies whether an approval is required.
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In the delivery pipeline YAML under the 'target' definition
Why this is correct
Each target can have an 'requireApproval' field.
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In the Cloud Scheduler job
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Scheduler triggers jobs, not approval gates.
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In the GKE cluster as a constraint
Why it's wrong here
GKE does not define approval gates; Cloud Deploy does.
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In the cloudbuild.yaml file
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Build builds artifacts; approvals are in Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines.
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GKE
GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in the cloud.
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Cloud Deploy
Cloud Deploy is the process of releasing software applications and updates from development to production environments that run on cloud infrastructure.
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