Deprecated. The Google Developers Console project ID or project number. This field has been deprecated and replaced by the name field.
zone (deprecated)
string
Deprecated. The name of the Google Compute Engine zone in which the cluster resides. This field has been deprecated and replaced by the name field.
clusterId (deprecated)
string
Deprecated. The name of the cluster to update. This field has been deprecated and replaced by the name field.
nodePoolId (deprecated)
string
Deprecated. The name of the node pool to update. This field has been deprecated and replaced by the name field.
Request body
The request body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"nodeCount": integer,"name": string}
Fields
nodeCount
integer
Required. The desired node count for the pool.
name
string
The name (project, location, cluster, node pool id) of the node pool to set size. Specified in the format projects/*/locations/*/clusters/*/nodePools/*.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
container.clusters.update
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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