Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance release notes

May 30, 2025

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Announcement

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped appliance 1.0 is generally available.
See the product overview to learn about the features of GDC air-gapped appliance.

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Feature

The following new features are available:

Identity and access management:

• Added support for Keycloak as an identity provider.

Vertex AI:

• Vertex AI is generally available (GA) in GDC air-gapped appliance, offering the following pre-trained APIs:

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • Speech-to-Text
  • Vertex AI Translation

Virtual machines:

• Added the ability to enable virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) when securely booting a VM.

• Added the following images to the GDC-provided VM image list:

  • Ubuntu 24.04 golden image
  • SUSE CHost 15.5 bring your own (BYO) image
  • Windows 10 bring your own (BYO) image

• Added the ability to perform VM disk expansion on VirtualMachineDisk partitions.

• Added the ability to create a VM instance with a specified IP address and subnet.

• Added the ability to view and maintain VM metadata.

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Security

Updated the Rocky OS image version to 20250219 to apply the latest security patches and important updates.

The following security vulnerabilities are fixed:

• CVE-2022-40303
• CVE-2022-40304
• CVE-2022-49043
• CVE-2023-32324
• CVE-2023-32360
• CVE-2023-33460
• CVE-2023-34241
• CVE-2024-35235
• CVE-2024-47175
• CVE-2024-52531

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Issue

The following issues are identified:

Monitoring

• The Grafana dashboard does not launch and displays a No healthy upstream error after rebooting the device.

Storage

• The OTS VM does not restart automatically after an ungraceful shutdown.

Upgrade

• There is a post-upgrade failure due to an unhealthy logging pipeline.

• Updating the appliance to a new patch fails when the gdcloud appliance upgrade long running command fails with a credential helper error.

• There is a post-upgrade failure due to the storage cluster that is not ready.

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Change

The following changes are identified:

Version updates:

• The Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal version is updated to 1.30.500-gke.127 to apply the latest security patches and important updates.
  
  See the Google Distributed Cloud for bare metal 1.30.500-gke.127 release notes for details.