diff --git a/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/main.tf b/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/main.tf
index 357f9ff848..f899cc0037 100644
--- a/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/main.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/main.tf
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ module "gcp-gke" {
   #source = "github.com/airyhq/airy.git/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke"
   source =  "../../modules/gcp-gke"
 
-
   project_id                 = var.project_id
   region                     = var.region
-  zone                       = var.zone
 }
diff --git a/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/variables.tf b/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/variables.tf
index ebb401025c..45c07cba57 100644
--- a/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/variables.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/terraform/install/gcp-gke/variables.tf
@@ -5,8 +5,4 @@ variable "project_id" {
 variable "region" {
   default     = "us-central1"
   description = "The region is us-central1"
-}
-variable "zone" {
-  default     = "us-central1-a"
-  description = "The zone defined in gcloud config is us-central1-a"
 }
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diff --git a/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/main.tf b/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/main.tf
index c0257224bd..7fec0c2d7f 100644
--- a/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/main.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/main.tf
@@ -1,62 +1,48 @@
 provider "google" {
   project = var.project_id
-  region  = var.region
+  region    = var.region
 }
 
-# VPC
 resource "google_compute_network" "vpc" {
   name                    = var.vpc_name
-  auto_create_subnetworks = "false"
 }
 
-# Subnet
-resource "google_compute_subnetwork" "subnet" {
-  name          = "${var.project_id}-subnet-public-0"
-  region        = var.region
-  network       = google_compute_network.vpc.name
-  ip_cidr_range = var.public_subnets[0]
-}
-
-# GKE cluster
 resource "google_container_cluster" "gke_core" {
   name     = "${var.project_id}-gke"
-  location = var.zone
+  location = var.region
   
   remove_default_node_pool = true
-  initial_node_count       = 1
+  initial_node_count       = var.gke_initial_node_count
 
   network    = google_compute_network.vpc.name
-  subnetwork = google_compute_subnetwork.subnet.name
 }
 
-# Separately Managed Node Pool
 resource "google_container_node_pool" "gke_core_nodes" {
   name       = "${google_container_cluster.gke_core.name}-node-pool"
-  location   = var.zone
+  location   = var.region
   cluster    = google_container_cluster.gke_core.name
   node_count = var.gke_num_nodes
 
   node_config {
+    preemptible  = true
+    machine_type = var.gke_instance_type
+
     oauth_scopes = [
       "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write",
       "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring",
-      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only",
-      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/ndev.clouddns.readwrite",
-      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/service.management.readonly",
-      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/servicecontrol",
-      "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/trace.append",
     ]
 
-    labels = {
-      env = var.project_id
-    }
-
-    machine_type = "n1-standard-1"
     tags         = ["gke-node", "${var.project_id}-gke"]
     metadata = {
       disable-legacy-endpoints = "true"
     }
+    labels = {
+      env = var.project_id
+    }
+
   }
+
+  depends_on = [resource.google_container_cluster.gke_core]
 }
 
 module "gke_auth" {
@@ -74,4 +60,4 @@ module "gke_auth" {
 resource "local_file" "kubeconfig" {
   content  = module.gke_auth.kubeconfig_raw
   filename = var.kubeconfig_output_path
-}
+}
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diff --git a/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/variables.tf b/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/variables.tf
index 19b66ffdfc..98ebca3b59 100644
--- a/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/variables.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/terraform/modules/gcp-gke/variables.tf
@@ -8,24 +8,22 @@ variable "region" {
   default     = "us-central1"
   description = "The region defined in gcloud config is us-central1"
 }
-variable "zone" {
-  type        = string
-  default     = "us-central1-a"
-  description = "The zone defined in gcloud config is us-central1-a"
-}
 variable "gke_num_nodes" {
   default     = 2
   description = "number of gke nodes"
 }
 variable "vpc_name" {
-  default = "airy-core-vpc"
-}
-variable "public_subnets" {
-  type        = list(string)
-  default = ["10.0.4.0/24", "10.0.5.0/24", "10.0.6.0/24"]
+  default     = "airy-core-vpc"
 }
 variable "kubeconfig_output_path" {
   type        = string
   default     = "./kube.conf"
   description = "The location of the kubeconfig file"
+}
+variable "gke_instance_type" {
+  type      = string
+  default   = "n1-standard-2"
+}
+variable "gke_initial_node_count" {
+  default   = 1
 }
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