# GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning

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- Publisher: Google Cloud
- Author credit: Abdel Sghiouar; Jakub Pawełczak
- Category: Cloud
- Original publication time: 2026-10-02T16:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-02T16:51:23Z
- Original source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-cpu-startup-boost-faster-pod-starts-lower-costs/
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-f8f1ea2fdecb2688ba24

## The brief

Google Cloud is previewing CPU startup boost for GKE, which temporarily increases container CPU requests and lowers them after readiness without restarting the container. It requires GKE 1.36.0-gke.4447000 or later; Standard clusters need Vertical Pod Autoscaling enabled, while Autopilot enables it by default. Boost policies support multipliers or fixed additions, and Autopilot workloads must still satisfy CPU-to-memory ratios.

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