This document lists the availability of features and capabilities for Google Distributed Cloud for supported releases. The table is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but it highlights some of the benefits of upgrading your clusters to the latest supported version.
Features listed as Preview are covered by the Pre-GA Offerings Terms of the Google Cloud Terms of Service. Pre-GA products and features might have limited support, and changes to pre-GA products and features might not be compatible with other pre-GA versions. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions. Preview offerings are intended for use in test environments only.
Features listed as General Availability (GA) are fully supported, open to all customers, and ready for production use.
| Feature/capability | 1.16 (unsupported) | 1.28 | 1.29 | 1.30 (latest) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admin cluster support for multiple user cluster versions | - | - | - | Preview |
| Alerting policies | Preview | Preview | Preview | Preview |
| VM Runtime on Google Distributed Cloud | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Azure Active Directory (AD) groups | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| BGP-based Load Balancer support for IPv6 | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Binary Authorization | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Bundled load balancing with BGP | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Cloud Audit Logging | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Cluster backup and restore CLI support | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Cluster Certificate Authorities (CAs) rotation | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Cluster node reset CLI support | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Cluster upgrade pause and resume | Preview | Preview | GA | GA |
| containerd container runtime | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Control group v2 | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Custom Certificate Authorities | Preview | GA | GA | GA |
| Custom Scheduler Configuration | - | - | - | Preview |
| Dataplane V2 Direct Server Return (DSR) load balancing forwarding mode | Preview | GA | GA | GA |
| Dynamic Flat IP with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Egress NAT gateway | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Flat IPv4 mode (static) | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Flat IPv6 support (BGP mode) | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| GKE Identity Service v2 | - | Preview | GA | GA |
| IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Keyless cluster mode | - | - | - | Preview |
| KSA support | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Managed Collector for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Multi-Cluster Connectivity | Preview | Preview | Preview | Preview |
| Multi-NIC for Pods | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Network Gateway for GDC | Preview | Preview | Preview | Preview |
| Node problem detector | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Parallel node upgrades | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Parallel node pool upgrades | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Performance Tuning Operator | Preview | Preview | Preview | Preview |
| Private registry support for nodes | - | - | Preview | GA |
| Registry mirror support | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Secure computing mode (seccomp) | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Skip node pool version upgrade | - | Preview | GA | GA |
| SR-IOV networking | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Summary API metrics | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| VPC Service Controls | GA | GA | GA | GA |
| Worker node pool upgrade rollback | - | - | Preview | GA |
| Workload identity | GA | GA | GA | GA |