Version 1.8. This version is no longer supported. For information about how to upgrade to version 1.9, seeUpgrading Anthos on bare metalin the 1.9 documentation. For more information about supported and unsupported versions, see theVersion historypage in the latest documentation.
Google Distributed Cloud lets you run Kubernetes clusters directly on your own machine resources
with flexibility, performance, and security in your environment.
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