This section describes the basic requirements for setting up an
Anthos GKE cluster
(previously known as GKE On-Prem)
suitable for a production environment.
Creating the cluster
For information about creating Anthos GKE clusters,
see
Creating
admin and user clusters in the Anthos GKE on-prem 1.5 documentation.
Production cluster requirements
Use these requirements as a guide when
creating your production cluster.
You must configure and label two types of nodes in your cluster -- one for the stateful Cassandra
pods and one for the rest of the pods, which are stateless.
Configure these node types as described below:
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