Agent Skills

GKE 1.36.4 gives ComputeClasses a real status surface: per-priority conditions with backoff timers, a node annotation that names the priority rule that provisioned it, and an audit-log trail that outlives the nodes themselves. This has been the longest-standing gap in the API, and it’s worth an afternoon of your time to get functional with it.

I’ve spent the last couple of posts trying to get autoscaling knowledge out of my head and onto the page — the ComputeClasses primer, then the curate-or-auto-create follow-up. And every time I finish one, I run into the same wall: a blog post is something you read. It sits there. The person who actually needs it is three Slack threads deep at 11pm with pods stuck Pending, and they are not going to stop and read a primer.