Yes you can, that's the point really. You can just start off on your own machine with something like Minikube [1] and deploy to GCP on a bunch of much larger no

Yes you can, that's the point really. You can just start off on your own machine with something like Minikube [1] and deploy to GCP on a bunch of much larger nodes to see how it behaves. The overhead of Kubernetes itself isn't much, it's just a bunch of API daemons. For small scale development, plain docker/podman is better in my opinion. [1]: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/ https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/