Google Container Engine 2017-05-03 release

[Aleksander Zabłocki]

May 3, 2017

• You can now use the Google Cloud Platform Console to choose whether existing node pools should be automatically upgraded when a new Kubernetes version becomes available.
  See Node Auto-Upgrade documentation for more information.
• You can now use the Google Cloud Platform Console to scale existing clusters running Kubernetes version 1.6.0 or later up to 5000 nodes in most zones.

Kubernetes v1.5.6 is the default version for new clusters.

The following Kubernetes versions are available for new clusters:

• 1.6.2
• 1.5.7

To create a cluster at a version which is not the default, run:

gcloud container clusters create --cluster-version=$VERSION $NAME

The following Kubernetes versions are available for container cluster node upgrades/downgrades:

• 1.6.2
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.0
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.6
• 1.4.9
  

https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/release-notes#may_3_2017