Google Cloud Managed Airflow Updates: Tags, Secrets, and Deprecations
Google Cloud's Managed Service for Apache Airflow now supports resource tagging for environments, enabling policy enforcement based on annotations. Additionally, Gen 3 environments can now manage Kubernetes Secrets of type kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson via the beta Cloud Composer API. This release also includes log filtering fixes in the Airflow UI and announces end-of-support for several older Airflow versions and builds.
Deprecations (1) ›
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
The following Managed Airflow versions and builds have reached their end of support period : composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.24, composer-2.13.2-airflow-2.9.3, composer-2.13.2-airflow-2.10.5.
Features (2) ›
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
Managed Service for Apache Airflow now supports Google Cloud tags for environments. Tags provide a way to create annotations for resources, and conditionally allow or deny policies based on whether a resource has a specific tag.
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
In Managed Airflow (Gen 3), it is now possible to create Kubernetes Secrets with the kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson secret type through the beta Cloud Composer API, in addition to the default Opaque secret type. For more information, see Manage Kubernetes Secrets .
Enhancements (2) ›
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3): composer-3-airflow-3.1.7-build.10 composer-3-airflow-2.11.1-build.6 (default) composer-3-airflow-2.10.5-build.39
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2): composer-2.17.3-airflow-2.11.1 (default) composer-2.17.3-airflow-2.10.5
Fixes (1) ›
- Managed Service for Apache Airflow
(Airflow 3) The INFO log level filter in Airflow UI now correctly displays log messages with this logging level.
https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#May_27_2026