Deprecations

The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (section "Discontinuation of Services") defines the deprecation policy that applies to Cloud Service Mesh. The deprecation policy only applies to the services, features, or products listed therein.

After a service, feature, or product is officially deprecated, it continues to be available for at least the period of time defined in the Terms of Service. After this period of time, the service is scheduled for shutdown.

Feature Deprecated date End-of-support date Details
Managed Cloud Service Mesh ISTIOD implementation September 28, 2026 March 1, 2028

Cloud Service Mesh support for the managed ISTIOD control plane implementation is deprecated. You must modernize any clusters using the ISTIOD implementation to the TRAFFIC_DIRECTOR control plane prior to the end of support date to continue using managed Cloud Service Mesh.

For more information, see Modernize your Cloud Service Mesh.

In-cluster control plane on GKE September 28, 2026 March 1, 2028

Cloud Service Mesh support for the in-cluster ISTIOD control plane for GKE on Google Cloud is deprecated. Cloud Service Mesh with an in-cluster control plane on Google Distributed Cloud (software only) continues to be supported.

For more information, see Migrate in-cluster to managed control plane on a new cluster.

Attached clusters (Amazon EKS and Microsoft AKS) May 27, 2025 March 17, 2027 Cloud Service Mesh support for attached clusters on Amazon EKS and Microsoft AKS is deprecated. GKE attached clusters are not deprecated.