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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