Cloud Deploy release notes

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May 23, 2025

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.16 as the default Skaffold version, as of May 23, 2025, for all target types.

March 31, 2025

Announcement

Cloud Deploy support for deploy policies is now generally available.

Announcement

Cloud Deploy support for repair rollout automation is now generally available.

March 21, 2025

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.14 as the default Skaffold version, as of March 21, 2025, for all target types.

October 16, 2024

Feature

You can now automatically retry failed rollouts, and automatically roll back to the most recent successful rollout, in preview.

October 10, 2024

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.13 as the default Skaffold version, as of October 4, 2024, for all target types.

August 19, 2024

Change

Cloud Deploy is now available in the following region: africa-south1 (Johannesburg)

May 06, 2024

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.11 as the default Skaffold version for all target types.

March 11, 2024

Announcement

Cloud Deploy support for deploy automation is now generally available.

February 07, 2024

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.10 as the default Skaffold version for all target types.

February 05, 2024

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following regions:

  • me-central1 (Doha)
  • me-central2 (Dammam)
  • europe-west12 (Turin)
  • europe-west10 (Berlin)

December 18, 2023

Feature

You can now access sample custom targets, including the following:

  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure Manager
  • GitOps
  • Vertex AI
  • Helm

December 05, 2023

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following regions:

  • europe-southwest1 (Madrid)
  • europe-west8 (Milan)
  • europe-west9 (Paris)
  • me-west1 (Israel)
  • us-east5 (Columbus)
  • us-south1 (Dallas)

November 08, 2023

Feature

Configuring Google Cloud operations suite alerts is now supported in the Cloud Deploy console.

October 27, 2023

Change

Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.8 as the default Skaffold version for all target types.

October 23, 2023

Feature

You can now deploy Cloud Run jobs, in addition to Cloud Run services.

September 28, 2023

Issue

When you create a release using the gcloud CLI version 445, 446, or 447, you might encounter an error where gcloud requires the clouddeploy.config.get permission. To fix this issue, upgrade to gcloud CLI version 448 or greater.

September 19, 2023

Announcement

Cloud Deploy now supports workforce identity federation.

August 23, 2023

Announcement

Cloud Deploy support for deploy parameters is now generally available.

August 07, 2023

Feature

You can now specify custom actions to perform before and/or after deploying, using deploy hooks, supported in preview.

July 24, 2023

Feature

You can now create delivery pipelines, targets, and releases using the Google Cloud console.

July 17, 2023

Feature

Cloud Deploy now provides the ability to pass deploy parameters to your manifests, per delivery pipeline, per target, and per release (in preview).

June 26, 2023

Announcement

Cloud Deploy support for parallel deployment is now generally available.

June 22, 2023

Feature

May 16, 2023

Feature

Security insights for container images are now available on the release details page.

April 28, 2023

Change

Google Cloud Deploy now uses Skaffold 2.3 as the default Skaffold version for all target types.

February 27, 2023

Announcement

January 31, 2023

Announcement

As of November 30, 2022, Google Cloud Deploy has achieved the following compliance certifications:

January 20, 2023

Change

Google Cloud Deploy now supports Skaffold version 2.0. The default Skaffold version remains 1.39.

September 15, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following regions:

  • asia-northeast2 (Osaka)
  • asia-south1 (Mumbai)
  • asia-south2 (Delhi)
  • asia-southeast1 (Singapore)
  • asia-southeast2 (Jakarta)
  • australia-southeast2 (Melbourne)
  • europe-central2 (Warsaw)
  • europe-north1 (Finland)
  • europe-west4 (Netherlands)
  • europe-west6 (Zurich)
  • northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto)
  • southamerica-west1 (Santiago)
  • us-west3 (Salt Lake City)
  • us-west4 (Las Vegas)

September 13, 2022

Feature

August 18, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy now supports Skaffold version 1.39.1, as the default.

July 27, 2022

Feature

You can now have Google Cloud Deploy generate a skaffold.yaml configuration file for you when you create a release, based on a single Kubernetes manifest which you provide. This configuration file is suitable for learning and onboarding.

July 25, 2022

Feature

You can now view and compare Kubernetes and Skaffold confguration files for releases, using Google Cloud Console.

July 11, 2022

Feature

You can now permanently abandon a release using Google Cloud Deploy.

Feature

You can now suspend a delivery pipeline using Google Cloud Deploy.

June 29, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following regions:

  • asia-east2 (Hong Kong)
  • europe-west2 (London)
  • europe-west3 (Frankfurt)
  • us-east4 (N. Virginia)
  • us-west2 (Los Angeles)

June 28, 2022

Announcement

June 07, 2022

Announcement

The Google Cloud Terraform provider now supports creating Google Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines and targets.

June 03, 2022

Feature

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following region: australia-southeast1 (Syndey)

May 17, 2022

Announcement

Google Cloud Deploy support for VPC Service Controls is now generally available (GA).

May 10, 2022

Feature

Google Cloud Deploy now lets you change the timeout for Cloud Build operations, from the default setting of 1 hour.

March 01, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following region: asia-northeast3 (Seoul)

February 28, 2022

February 03, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy is now available in the following regions:

  • northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal)
  • asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)

January 20, 2022

Change

Google Cloud Deploy support for Skaffold version 1.35.1 has been updated to version 1.35.2, which is now the default Skaffold version.

September 17, 2021

Breaking

Resource names, such as release name, are now validated for conformance with AIP-122. If you created any Google Cloud Deploy resources with names that don't conform, those resources might not work.

September 15, 2021

Breaking

The 3-part cluster specification is no longer supported in target configuration. The only accepted format is now as follows:

gke:
  cluster: projects/[project_name]/locations/[location]/clusters/[cluster_name]
Breaking

In the release resource, the archive_uri output field is replaced with artifact_uri. This reflects the fact that the Skaffold configuration and rendered manifest are no longer stored together as a tar file in a Google Cloud Storage bucket. They are now stored as files in GCS, in a folder corresponding to each render operation.

August 20, 2021

Feature

Cloud Deploy now supports configuring custom execution environments for render and deploy activity. You can choose the default pool or a private pool, default or custom service account, and the default or alternative Cloud Storage bucket.