Config Connector 1.156.0 Adds Alpha Resources for AI, Security, and Storage
Config Connector version 1.156.0 is now available, introducing new Alpha resources that expand declarative management for a range of GCP services. These include resources for managing Contact Center Insights QA scorecards, Document AI Warehouse Synonym Sets, Discovery Engine, and Vertex AI Vector Search collections, along with Model Armor templates for LLM safety. The release also adds support for GKE Hub Fleets, Network Security Authorization Policies, and Cloud Storage Insights dataset configurations. Additionally, new fields for Bigtable, Container Cluster/NodePool, Dataproc, and Network Security Firewall Endpoint are included, alongside optional NAT IP allocation and CLI improvements.
Features (3) ›
- Config Connector
New Alpha Resources (Direct Reconciler): CCInsightsQAScorecard Manage Contact Center Insights QA scorecards to manage and evaluate agent performance. ContentWarehouseSynonymSet Manage Document AI Warehouse Synonym Sets to manage custom synonym groups for searches. DevConnectAccountConnector Manage Developer Connect Account Connectors to connect GKE clusters to developer systems. DiscoveryEngineEngine Manage Discovery Engine search engines to power search experiences. DiscoveryEngineServingConfig Manage Discovery Engine serving configurations to control search, recommendation, and listing featu
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New Fields: BigtableTable Added spec.automatedBackupPolicy.locations field. ContainerCluster Added spec.nodeConfig.swapConfig field. ContainerNodePool Added spec.nodeConfig.swapConfig field. DataprocCluster Added spec.secondaryWorkerConfig.instanceFlexibilityPolicy field. NetworkSecurityFirewallEndpoint Added spec.organizationRef field to support organizing resources at the organization level, and made spec.projectRef optional.
- Config Connector
New Features: Optional NAT IP Allocate Option : Made natIpAllocateOption an optional field in ComputeRouterNat to support dynamic allocation. Preview Summary CLI Improvements : Added namespace and current status to the preview summary report.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Config Connector
Reconciliation Improvements: We have added support for direct reconciliation to more resources, with opt-in behavior. The API is unchanged. To use the direct reconciler, add the alpha.cnrm.cloud.google.com/reconciler: direct annotation to the corresponding Config Connector object. The following resources now have direct reconciliation support: VertexAITensorboard Support direct reconciliation (opt-in).
Notes (1) ›
- Config Connector
Config Connector version 1.156.0 is now available.
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#September_08_2026
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