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September 23, 2024
Cloud Workstations is available in the us-west4 region (Las Vegas, Nevada, North America). For more information, see Locations.
September 16, 2024
Cloud Workstations preconfigured base images use Ubuntu 24.04. The last images built on Ubuntu 22.04 are tagged with last-ubuntu2204 for building backwards compatible custom images.
Cloud Workstations preconfigured base images default to Python 3.12.3.
August 06, 2024
If you specify a source workstation during workstation creation, Cloud Workstations supports cloning of persistent directories. For more information, see REST workstations, RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta, or gcloud beta workstations create.
June 17, 2024
Cloud Workstations is available in the australia-southeast2 region (Melbourne, Australia). For more information, see Locations.
June 13, 2024
Cloud Workstations is available in the asia-northeast3 region (Seoul, South Korea). For more information, see Locations.
June 10, 2024
Workstations that enable nested virtualization are hosted on VMs running Container-Optimized OS (COS) instead of Ubuntu.
May 28, 2024
The Code-OSS preconfigured base image uses version 1.89.1.
May 27, 2024
Cloud Workstations is available in the southamerica-east1 region (Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, South America). For more information, see Locations.
Cloud Workstations is available in the us-east5 region (Columbus, Ohio, North America). For more information, see Locations.
April 29, 2024
Cloud Workstations base images use Ubuntu 22.04. The last images built on Ubuntu 20.04 are tagged with last-ubuntu2004 for building backwards compatible custom images.
Cloud Workstations base images default to Python 3.10.12
April 08, 2024
Code Transformations for Gemini Code Assist are available for Public Preview. You can use an inline text box directly in your code file to do the following:
- Generate comment lines to document your code.
- Troubleshoot code with issues.
- Improve code readability.
- Make code more efficient.
You can also view context sources of a generated response in the Gemini: Chat pane.
For more information, see Code with Gemini Code Assist.
March 22, 2024
Support for GPUs is generally available (GA). For more information, see Available GPUs.
Cloud Workstations supports the following machine type:
- a2-megagpu-16g
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
February 22, 2024
Cloud Workstations supports Image Streaming, which provides faster workstations startup by reducing image pull time.
February 14, 2024
Cloud Workstations is available in the europe-west8 region (Milan, Italy, Europe). For more information, see Locations.
January 12, 2024
Cloud Workstations supports the following machine types:
e2-medium
n1-standard-1
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
December 15, 2023
Support for custom domains is generally available through the gcloud CLI and REST API. To access your workstations, you can specify a trusted, custom domain rather than using the default cloudworkstations.dev domain.
December 11, 2023
Cloud Workstations supports the following machine type:
- n2d-highmem
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
November 07, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the asia-east2 region (Hong Kong, APAC). For more information, see Locations.
November 06, 2023
The Code-OSS preconfigured base image uses version 1.83.1.
November 03, 2023
Support for custom domains is available in preview through the gcloud CLI and REST API. To access your workstations, you can specify a trusted, custom domain rather than using the default cloudworkstations.dev domain.
November 01, 2023
Duet AI for Cloud Workstations is available. Use Duet AI, your AI-powered collaborator, to accomplish tasks more effectively and efficiently. Duet AI provides contextualized responses to your prompts to help guide you on what you're trying to do with your code. It also shares source citations regarding which documentation and code samples the assistant used to generate its responses.
If you use the Code - OSS base image, you can use Duet AI in the Cloud Workstations base editor. For more information, see the Duet AI in Google Cloud overview and Code with Duet AI assistance.
October 25, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the northamerica-northeast1 region (Montréal, Québec, North America). For more information, see Locations.
October 02, 2023
If you use the latest preconfigured base images for JetBrains IDEs, the .vmoptions and .properties files persist across workstations. For more information, see Customize JetBrains IDE vmoptions and properties.
September 11, 2023
August 29, 2023
Duet AI for Cloud Workstations is available in Preview. Use Duet AI, your AI-powered collaborator, to accomplish tasks more effectively and efficiently. Duet AI provides contextualized responses to your prompts to help guide you on what you're trying to do with your code. It also shares source citations regarding which documentation and code samples the assistant used to generate its responses.
If you use the Code - OSS base image, you can use Duet AI in the Cloud Workstations base editor. For more information, see the Duet AI in Google Cloud overview and Code with Duet AI assistance.
August 26, 2023
Posit Workbench (including RStudio Pro) integration is generally available (GA). For more information, see Develop code using Posit Workbench.
August 15, 2023
The JetBrains PyCharm Professional preconfigured base image uses Python version 3.8 as the default for python, python3, pip, and pip3. However, Python version 3.10 remains available.
July 21, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the europe-west12 region (Turin, Italy, Europe). For more information, see Locations.
July 04, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the australia-southeast1 region (Sydney, Australia, APAC). For more information, see Locations.
June 21, 2023
The following Google Cloud CLI commands are generally available (GA):
gcloud workstationsgcloud workstations configsgcloud workstations clusters
June 14, 2023
June 13, 2023
The Available GPUs page contains additional instructions for using the gcloud CLI or curl to specify a GPU machine type.
May 24, 2023
Cloud Workstations adds Google Cloud console support for the me-west1 region (Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East). For more information, see Locations.
May 10, 2023
Cloud Workstations is generally available (GA) and is backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
This release includes support for the following features:
- API and
gcloudCLI support for theme-west1region (Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East). - API support for GPUs is available in preview.
- Terraform support is available in preview.
- Posit Workbench (including RStudio Pro) integration is available in preview.
- BeyondCorp Enterprise integration for the Cloud Workstations API is available in preview.
May 05, 2023
Cloud Workstations supports the following machine types:
- n1-standard-64
- n1-standard-96
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
April 25, 2023
The Code-OSS preconfigured base image uses version 1.77.3.
April 24, 2023
April 21, 2023
Cloud Workstations supports the following machine types:
- n1-standard-2
- n1-standard-8
- n1-standard-16
- n1-standard-32
- n2-standard-2
- n2-standard-4
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
April 03, 2023
Cloud Workstations is beginning the migration of preconfigured base images to Ubuntu as their base OS. The last images built using Debian are tagged with :last-debian in Artifact Registry to allow more time for you to make adjustments to custom images.
March 31, 2023
You can use a pre-customized snapshot as the source of a Persistent Disk in Cloud Workstations. For more information, see About disk snapshots. See also the sourceSnapshot within GceRegionalPersistentDisk field added to the following REST API resources: workstation configurations, and source_snapshot in the following RPC resources: workstations.v1beta.
Cloud Workstations is available in the asia-northeast1 region (Tokyo, Japan, APAC). For more information, see Locations.
March 30, 2023
You can use container output logging to view standard output and standard error logs generated by a workstation container.
March 29, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the following regions:
asia-south1(Mumbai, India APAC)us-east4(Ashburn, Virginia, North America)
For more information, see Locations.
March 20, 2023
Newly-created clusters write vm_assignments and disk_assignments platform logs to Cloud Logging, indicating when VM instances and persistent disks are allocated to a workstation.
March 17, 2023
Cloud Workstations is available in the following regions:
europe-west6(Zurich, Switzerland, Europe)europe-west9(Paris, France, Europe)
For more information, see Locations.
February 07, 2023
You can use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) to protect Persistent Disks in Cloud Workstations. CMEK in Cloud Workstations is available in Beta. For more information, see Encrypt workstation resources using customer-managed encryption keys.
January 31, 2023
Cloud Workstations makes the following machine types available:
- n2-standard-8
- n2-standard-16
- n2-standard-32
For more information, see Available machine types, REST workstationConfigs, or RPC google.cloud.workstations.v1beta GceInstance.
January 17, 2023
You can apply custom labels to Cloud Workstations resources.
For more information, see Label resources and Customize workstation configurations.
See also the labels field added to the following REST API resources:
workstation clusters,
workstation configurations,
workstations, and the following RPC resources:
location and
workstations.v1beta.
October 28, 2022
The Code-OSS preconfigured base image uses version 1.73.1.
The JetBrains Rider preconfigured base image continues to use Rider 2022.2.3. It appears in this list of JetBrains IDEs for completeness.
October 11, 2022
Cloud Workstations is available in Preview. For more information about using Cloud Workstations, see the documentation.