Google Cloud SDK 228.0.0 introduces several new beta features and promotes existing ones to GA across Compute Engine, Cloud Composer, Cloud DNS, and Kubernetes Engine. A notable breaking change is the deprecation of the --full flag for gcloud endpoints operations describe. Additionally, the Java SDK for App Engine has been updated to version 1.9.70.

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Breaking Changes

  • Deprecated --full flag of gcloud endpoints operations describe. All described operations are now printed without redacting any content.

New Features by Service

App Engine

  • Updated the Java SDK to version 1.9.70, providing new features and bug fixes for App Engine standard Java environments.

Cloud Composer

  • Promoted --python-version flag of gcloud composer environments create to GA, allowing stable specification of the Python version used within a created environment.
    • Flags: --python-version

Cloud DNS

  • Added the gcloud beta dns policies command group for managing DNS policies.

Compute Engine

  • Added --use-serving-port flag to gcloud beta compute health-checks update.
    • Flags: --use-serving-port
  • Added --container-mount-disk flag to gcloud beta compute instance-templates create-with-container.
    • Flags: --container-mount-disk
  • Promoted gcloud compute security-policies and gcloud compute security-policies rules command groups to GA.
  • Promoted --security-policy flag of gcloud compute backend-services update to GA.
    • Flags: --security-policy
  • Added --no-guest-environment flag to gcloud beta compute images import which prevents Google Guest Agent from being installed on the image.
    • Flags: --no-guest-environment
  • Added --network and --subnet flags to gcloud beta compute images import.
    • Flags: --network, --subnet
  • Added --subnet flag to gcloud beta compute images export.
    • Flags: --subnet
  • Promoted --prefix-length, --purpose, and --network flags to GA for gcloud compute addresses create to support reserving IP ranges from a virtual network for peering.
    • Flags: --prefix-length, --purpose, --network
  • Added the gcloud beta compute start-iap-tunnel command for Cloud IAP TCP Forwarding, enabling TCP tunnels to instances without external IPs and with access granted using Cloud IAP.

Kubernetes Engine

  • Promoted Vertical Pod Autoscaling to beta. This feature can be enabled using --enable-vertical-pod-autoscaling with gcloud beta container clusters create or gcloud beta container clusters update.
    • Flags: --enable-vertical-pod-autoscaling

Stats

  • Files changed: 113
  • Inserted lines: +5,781
  • Deleted lines: -1,840

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