New Google Distributed Cloud versions sometimes introduce a new Kubernetes version
for clusters. Version changes are announced in
Release notes. To learn which
Kubernetes version your cluster runs, see
Versions.
Preinstalled tools
Google Distributed Cloud's node OS has the following tools preinstalled: arpingcloud-utils, conntrack, logrotate, prips, systemd-container
Google Distributed Cloud's node OS has the debug-toolbox container image
preinstalled. debug-toolbox includes several packages for debugging node
issues. You run an accompanying shell script, toolbox, to unpack and run the
debug-toolbox container.
Learn about the toolbox script.
Networking
As of Google Distributed Cloud version 1.1.0-gke.6, the node OS' default
networking configuration is disabled to support static IP allocation.
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