Google Cloud SDK 218.0.0 introduces new features like Cloud Dataproc cluster import/export capabilities and expanded metadata flags for Kubernetes Engine, alongside a breaking change in the gcloud sql instances list output. Significant promotions to General Availability and Beta occurred for Cloud Dataproc IAM policies and workflow templates, as well as Container Analysis image description and tag listing flags. Additionally, bug fixes were provided for Firebase Test Lab and Cloud Tools for PowerShell functionality.

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Breaking Changes

  • The gcloud sql instances list command’s default format was updated; the PRIVATE_NETWORK column was added, and the ADDRESS column was renamed to PRIMARY_ADDRESS.

New Features by Service

Cloud Dataproc

  • Added gcloud beta dataproc clusters export to enable exporting a cluster’s configuration to a YAML file.
  • Added gcloud beta dataproc clusters import to enable creating a cluster from configuration in a YAML file.
  • Added the --optional-components flag to the gcloud beta dataproc clusters create command.
    • Flags: --optional-components

Compute Engine

  • Added the --storage-location flag to gcloud beta compute disks snapshot to specify the location region of a snapshot.
    • Flags: --storage-location

Kubernetes Engine

  • Added the --metadata and --metadata-from-file flags to gcloud node-pools create and gcloud clusters create commands.
    • Flags: --metadata, --metadata-from-file
  • Added the --internal-ip flag to gcloud beta container clusters get-credentials.
    • Flags: --internal-ip

Credential & Auth Changes

  • Promoted the following IAM policy management commands to General Availability (GA) for Cloud Dataproc: gcloud dataproc clusters get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; gcloud dataproc jobs get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; gcloud dataproc operations get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; and gcloud dataproc workflow-templates get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy.

API Changes

Cloud Dataproc

  • Promoted the following IAM policy management commands to General Availability (GA): gcloud dataproc clusters get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; gcloud dataproc jobs get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; gcloud dataproc operations get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy; and gcloud dataproc workflow-templates get-iam-policy, set-iam-policy.
  • Promoted the gcloud dataproc workflow-templates command group to General Availability (GA).

Cloud Scheduler

  • Promoted the gcloud scheduler command group to beta.

Cloud Tools For PowerShell

  • Updated Cloud Tools for PowerShell to version 1.0.1.10, fixing a bug where fixed key metadata did not work with Google Cloud Storage cmdlets.

Container Analysis

  • Promoted the following alpha flags in gcloud container images describe to beta: --metadata-filter, --show-build-details, --show-package-vulnerability, --show-image-basis, --show-deployment, and --show-all-metadata.
  • Promoted the following alpha flags in gcloud container images list-tags to beta: --occurrence-filter, --show-occurrences, and --show-occurrences-from.

Firebase Test Lab

  • Fixed a bug where the --environment-variables flag did not work in the 217.0.0 release.

Stats

  • Files changed: 148
  • Inserted lines: +9,639
  • Deleted lines: -9,883

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