Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped 1.14.4 release notes

May 23, 2025

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped 1.14.4 is available.
See the product overview to learn about the features of Distributed Cloud.
The following new features are available:

Networking:

  • Added session affinity for external load balancers. Use session affinity for ELBs to ensure that requests from the same client are consistently routed to the same backend. For more information, see Configure external load balancers.

Resource Manager:

  • Added the capability to create asymmetrical organization configurations across zones in a GDC universe. This is a Preview feature.

Storage:

  • Added support for replicated storage resources such as volumes and buckets in asynchronous mode for disaster recovery scenarios. These storage resource options provide asynchronous data replication between zones in a GDC universe. For more information, see Data protection with multi-zone storage.

Vertex AI:

Updated the Rocky OS image version to 20250219 to apply the latest security patches and important updates.

The following security vulnerabilities are fixed:

The following issues are identified:

Backup and restore

  • The UI incorrectly displays a disk size as 0Mb.

IAM

  • The first role binding attached to a new service identity using the GDC console does not take effect, and causes issues with all proceeding role binding additions.

Multi-tenancy:

  • GDC console does not indicate node pool creation failures

Resource Manager:

  • The global v1 organization's replica status reports a zonal v1 organization configuration for all zones, regardless of whether it was actually created.

Server:

  • The BIOS credential rotation is stuck in the reset-requested stage.

Storage:

  • Deleting an empty bucket from the GDC console fails.

Upgrade:

  • Shared service cluster annotation is not updated after a successful cluster upgrade.

Virtual machines:

  • An image import fails.
The following issues are fixed:

Cluster management:

  • Fixed the issue where the kub-gpu-controller subcomponent did not reconcile for the gdchservices organization.

Networking:

  • Fixed the issue where data plane and management ingress gateways did not reconcile.

Resource Manager:

  • Fixed the issue where the failing create-ansible-playbooks job caused organization problems.

System Artifact Registry:

  • Fixed the issue where a false alarm can be triggered in response to transient errors when reconciling the HarborRobotAccount resource. For more information, see Known issues.
The following changes are identified:

Version updates: