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It used to be straightforward when Google Cloud just offered everyone the same version of GKE essentially everywhere. It was one of not-too-many services that
by eitally 3y ago
It used to be straightforward when Google Cloud just offered everyone the same version of GKE essentially everywhere. It was one of not-too-many services that are vanilla and identical in pretty much every region. But, newer offerings have fractured things a bit (sovereign cloud, Google Distributed Cloud, FedRAMP, Tencent, etc) and I can see why it would become problematic to adequately test and keep everything in sync while also not breaking interfaces and/or downstream services. Also, Google used to allow customers essentially 0 say in when upgrades to services were applied. Now, as part of many vendor security audit processes, it's a hard stop requirement that customers are able to test new revs before applying to prod ... and GKE, like GCE, is one of those critical services.