GKE Burstable Workload Disabled?

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I have been creating some deployments on GKE and I was trying to follow the tutorial to activate bursting in a cluster with autopilot enabled:

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/pod-bursting-gke

I have followed all the specs and my current kuberntes cluster version is 1.29.3-gke.1282001.

Even running the example “Deploy a burstable workload”, the workload is created as “Guaranteed”. After some research i found the advice in red:

“Caution: Due to a known issue, we temporarily disabled bursting in GKE Autopilot clusters that were created or upgraded to version 1.29.2-gke.1060000 and later on or after April 24, 2024. Clusters that enabled bursting prior to April 24, 2024 continue to support bursting. For details and to troubleshoot stuck Pods, see Pods stuck during termination or creation.”

I would like to confirm this is the reason my pods are being created as “Guaranteed” instead of “Burstable” and I would like to ask if It is going to be normalized someday. Otherwise I will choose to create a cluster without autopilot as my memory requirements are very small (less than 512MiB).

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I’m also having this problem! Please, fix it!

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Yeah that sounds like the reason why you’re not getting burstable workloads. If you really want it you can contact Cloud Support for an ad-hoc reenablement for your cluster, but I think a fix is coming sooner rather than later. I don’t have timelines or guarantees, but up to you if you want to wait or switch to Standard for now since you can get bursting in Standard in any version even now.

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Ok! That explains the problem I was facing. I am going to wait for the fix for some days.