SHORT_LIVED is the dedicated upgrade strategy for
QueuedProvisioning and flex start nodepools scaled up only by enqueueing to
the Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS).
Surge
SURGE is the traditional way of upgrade a node pool.
max_surge and max_unavailable determines the level of upgrade parallelism.
Unspecified
Default value if unset. GKE internally defaults the update strategy to
SURGE for unspecified strategies.
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