GKE becomes more elastic: Scale to zero, save costs, and keep workloads responsive

True elasticity has long been the holy grail of cloud-native engineering. And while Kubernetes has revolutionized resource management, workloads that run sporadically (e.g., batch processors, event-driven workers, and development environments) still consume compute resources while they wait for work, driving up costs. We’re addressing this head-on in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.37 with a native way to scale to and from zero .