Release note — compute family, 2026-10-21
What the compute family covers at first release, the renaming it leads with, the concurrency difference that is a correctness risk in a migration, and what is known to be missing — including the error surfaces not yet catalogued.
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Compute family — first release
Added
| Document | What it carries |
|---|---|
reference/compute/compute-engine.md | the six machine families and their series, the naming grammar, where custom types are allowed |
reference/compute/gke-cluster-modes.md | Autopilot and Standard, the responsibility split, the two billing dimensions |
reference/compute/cloud-run.md | the four resource types, the immutable revision, jobs to executions to tasks |
reference/compute/cloud-functions.md | the renaming, the Cloud Run platform underneath, the four capability differences |
reference/compute/errors.md | the startup, import, deploy-permission, 429 and 503 strings with cause, check and fix |
guides/compute/deploy-a-container-on-cloud-run.md | seven steps, ending in a verification that separates 429 from 503 |
guides/parity/compute.md | the one-to-three Cloud Run mapping, and the concurrency row that is a correctness risk |
The two headline facts
- The product names changed. "Cloud Functions" and "2nd gen" are both old; it is Cloud Run functions,
and a modern function deploys as a Cloud Run service.
- A modern function instance serves up to 1000 concurrent requests, where 1st gen served one and AWS
Lambda's execution environment serves one at a time. Code written under the one-request assumption has
races on Google Cloud. This is documented as a migration correctness risk, not a tuning note, in
guides/parity/compute.md §2.
Absences recorded rather than filled in
- The machine-resource page prints no last-updated date, the only page in this release that does not. Series
availability is zonal and is read live rather than written down.
- The GKE cluster-mode page describes Autopilot's restrictions at the level of "privileges and configuration
options" and does not enumerate every forbidden field; the document says to check specific Pod specs against Autopilot's own constraints page.
Known missing
- Compute Engine and GKE error catalogues. The family's error document covers Cloud Run only, because that
is where a migrated container lands. GKE node-pool and Compute Engine quota failures are not catalogued.
- Managed instance groups, autoscaling policies and instance templates.
- Sole-tenant nodes, Confidential Computing, Spot VMs and preemptibility.
- Artifact Registry, named in the parity table and not documented.
- Cloud Run service-to-service authentication and VPC egress settings (partly covered in the networking family).