Google Distributed Cloud node pools also support
Container-Optimized OS. Container-Optimized OS on Google Distributed Cloud
supports kdump for
debugging kernel issues.
Google Distributed Cloud offers the following node image options per OS for your
cluster:
OS
Node images
Status
Container-Optimized OS
General Availability
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Ubuntu with Docker (ubuntu)
General Availability
Kubernetes version
New Google Distributed Cloud versions sometimes introduce a new Kubernetes version
for clusters. Version changes are announced in
Release notes. To learn which
Kubernetes version your cluster runs, see
Versions.
Preinstalled tools
Google Distributed Cloud's node OS has the following tools preinstalled: arpingcloud-utils, conntrack, logrotate, prips, systemd-container
Google Distributed Cloud's node OS has the debug-toolbox container image
preinstalled. debug-toolbox includes several packages for debugging node
issues. You run an accompanying shell script, toolbox, to unpack and run the
debug-toolbox container.
Learn about the toolbox script.
Networking
As of Google Distributed Cloud version 1.1.0-gke.6, the node OS' default
networking configuration is disabled to support static IP allocation.
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