Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes
You can add, modify, and remove nodes from a cluster using either Cloud Console or Cloud SDK in your local environment, on a GCP virtual machine, or in Cloud Shell.
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes with Cloud Console
From Cloud Console, navigate to the Kubernetes Engine page and display a list of clusters. Click the name of a cluster to display its details, as in Figure 8.22. Note the Edit option near the top of the screen. Click that to open an Edit form.
FIGURE 8.22 Details of a cluster in Cloud Console
Scroll down to the Node Pools section, which lists the name, size, node image, machine type, and other information about the cluster. The size parameter is optional. In the example shown in Figure 8.23, the cluster has three nodes.
FIGURE 8.23 Details of a node pool in Cloud Console
To add nodes, increase the size to the number of nodes you would like. To remove nodes, decrease the size to the number of nodes you’d like...
