GKE Adds Bare Metal, Confidential Nodes, and L4 Load Balancer Logging
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) announces general availability for bare metal instances on C4A Arm processors, alongside enhanced Confidential GKE Nodes supporting AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX on Autopilot. Additionally, GKE versions 1.36.0-gke.2459000+ allow direct Cloud Logging configuration for L4 load balancer backend services. These updates benefit users deploying Arm workloads, requiring enhanced security for sensitive data, and needing finer-grained visibility into L4 load balancer traffic.
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- Google Kubernetes Engine
C4A bare metal instances are generally available with GKE clusters. For more information, see the Arm workloads on GKE document, including the "Requirements and limitations" section for specific version requirements.
- Google Kubernetes Engine
Confidential GKE Nodes now support cluster level enablement of AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX on GKE Autopilot.
- Google Kubernetes Engine
In GKE versions 1.36.0-gke.2459000 and later, you can directly configure Cloud Logging for L4 load balancer backend services by using the L4LBConfig CustomResourceDefinition (CRD). This feature is available for the following load balancer types: Internal L4 load balancers with subsetting enabled. External L4 load balancers with regional backend services (RBS) enabled.
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#May_28_2026