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