The bare metal machine types from the C3 machine series are now generally available with GKE clusters
GAUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
The bare metal machine types from the C3 machine series are now generally available with GKE clusters. You can now provision machine types such as c3-standard-192-metal in Standard mode with any available GKE version.
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Every Google Kubernetes Engine release| Date | Release | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | GKE version 1.35.1-gke.1031000 and later include the following changes to automatically created firewall...unverified Update | Update |
| Sep 2 | (2026-R37) Version updatesunverified Update | Update |
| Sep 2 | Note : Your clusters might not have these versions availableunverified Preview | Preview |
| Aug 31 | Session affinity support using GCPTrafficDistributionPolicy for GKE Gateway is generally availableunverified GA | GA |
| Sep 3 | GKE support for using the c3-standard-*-lssd machine types as Confidential GKE Nodes with Intel TDX is...unverified GA | GA |
| Sep 4 | Kubernetes 1.37 is availableunverified Update | Update |
| Sep 4 | Removed in 1.37unverified Deprecation | Deprecation |
| Sep 4 | Other changes in 1.37unverified Update | Update |
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