The microVM sandbox type is now Generally Available (GA) with GKE Sandbox in clusters that run version...

GAOct 7, 2026yesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 8, 2026

The microVM sandbox type is now Generally Available (GA) with GKE Sandbox in clusters that run version 1.37.0-gke.4713000 and later. MicroVM sandboxes provide hardware virtualization and isolation for untrusted workloads, AI agent runtimes, and multi-tenant environments.

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Starting on July 1, 2026, Identity Service for GKE is deprecated in GKE version 1.36 and earlier
DeprecationOct 5unverified
GKE support for using the c4-standard-* machine types (up to 192 vCPUs) as Confidential GKE Nodes with Intel...
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Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available
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You can use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically optimize...
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GKE now automatically applies protection tier labels to TPU node pools created from Compute Engine...
UpdateSep 30unverified
The storage-optimized Z4D machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.3-gke.1244000 or later
UpdateSep 28unverified
GKE Standard clusters now support up to 512 maximum Pods per node, an increase from the previous limit of 256
UpdateSep 25unverified

Date	Release	Type
Oct 53 days ago	Starting on July 1, 2026, Identity Service for GKE is deprecated in GKE version 1.36 and earlier unverified Deprecation	Deprecation
Oct 53 days ago	GKE support for using the c4-standard-* machine types (up to 192 vCPUs) as Confidential GKE Nodes with Intel... unverified GA	GA
Oct 26 days ago	(2026-R42) Version updates unverified Update	Update
Oct 26 days ago	Note : Your clusters might not have these versions available unverified Preview	Preview
Oct 26 days ago	You can use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to automatically optimize... unverified Preview	Preview
Sep 308 days ago	GKE now automatically applies protection tier labels to TPU node pools created from Compute Engine... unverified Update	Update
Sep 2810 days ago	The storage-optimized Z4D machine series is available with GKE clusters running 1.36.3-gke.1244000 or later unverified Update	Update
Sep 2513 days ago	GKE Standard clusters now support up to 512 maximum Pods per node, an increase from the previous limit of 256 unverified Update	Update

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