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A global retail company is designing an automated validation procedure for a new microservices-based inventory management platform on Google Cloud. The deployment process must validate infrastructure availability, security compliance, and system performance before pushing releases to production. The environment relies on private Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and strict VPC Service Controls. Which testing procedure best aligns with Google Cloud recommended best practices for validating this technical solution?

  1. Implement a pre-deployment pipeline that runs terraform plan against a remote Cloud Storage backend with state locking, verifies regional quota availability via the Cloud Quotas API, and executes automated integration tests against GKE private master endpoints using internal CI/CD runners inside authorized VPC networks.Cevap
  2. B
    Run automated infrastructure deployment scripts directly against production environments without checking quota metrics, relying on Google Cloud auto-scaling to provision missing capacity and submitting quota increase requests upon encountering runtime provisioning failures.
  3. C
    Temporarily open private GKE control plane endpoints to 0.0.0.0/0 during the automated testing stage to allow external CI/CD runners to execute validation suites, re-establishing authorized network restrictions after tests finish.
  4. D
    Store temporary Terraform state files locally on ephemeral CI/CD build runner disks during parallel testing phases to bypass Cloud Storage backend locking overhead and accelerate validation execution.

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The correct validation strategy implements a pre-deployment pipeline that verifies IaC plan validity against a versioned Cloud Storage backend with locking, checks regional resource quotas via the Cloud Quotas API prior to provisioning, and executes end-to-end integration tests using internal runners with access to private GKE control plane authorized networks.
The solution establishing a pre-deployment pipeline with Cloud Storage remote state locking, Cloud Quotas API validation, and internal runner access to private GKE authorized networks adheres strictly to GCP technical validation best practices. It verifies state integrity, guarantees resource availability, and enforces perimeter security.

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1
Analyze infrastructure state and deployment prerequisites
Ensure Terraform state is centralized in Cloud Storage with object locking to prevent concurrent state corruption during pre-flight checks.
Centralized state validation ensures that infrastructure changes accurately reflect expected environment configurations without drift.
2
Validate Google Cloud resource quotas programmatically
Query the Cloud Quotas API to confirm required compute, network, and IP resources exist prior to initiating deployment testing.
Requesting or verifying quota limits in advance prevents deployment pipeline failures caused by unexpected quota exhaustion.
3
Execute technical validation securely within private network boundaries
Deploy internal CI/CD runners inside authorized VPC networks to run integration and load tests against private GKE control plane endpoints.
Using authorized internal networks preserves private cluster security while enabling automated pre-flight testing suites.

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