PCDOE Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines Practice Question
A CI/CD pipeline must deploy to multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) with manual approval required before prod deployment. Which Google Cloud service is best for orchestrating this?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Deploy with promotion
Cloud Deploy provides a delivery pipeline with sequential stages and manual approval gates, making it ideal for multi-environment deployments.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Spinnaker
Why it's wrong here
Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform, not a native Google Cloud service, thus failing the requirement for a *Google Cloud service* for orchestration. Its deployment and management on GCP would necessitate self-provisioning and operational overhead. This option is tempting because Spinnaker is a powerful tool, excelling at complex, multi-cloud deployments and advanced strategies like canary or blue/green. It would be the correct choice if the scenario prioritised a robust, vendor-agnostic, self-managed CD solution over a fully managed, native cloud offering.
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Cloud Deploy with promotion
Why this is correct
Cloud Deploy supports manual approvals and promotion across targets.
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Jenkins on GKE
Why it's wrong here
Jenkins requires custom setup and doesn't have native Google Cloud integration.
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Cloud Build with manual steps
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Build lacks native approval gates and environment management.
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