You have an application deployed in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with cluster autoscaling turned on. This application exposes a TCP endpoint and is running multiple replicas. Additionally, you have a Compute Engine instance located in the same geographical region but in a different Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) named gce-network, which does not have overlapping IP ranges with the VPC hosting the GKE cluster. The Compute Engine instance needs to establish a connection to the application running on GKE. You aim to achieve this with minimal effort. What steps should you take?