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Cloud Run for Anthos Knative serving

Legacy names Cloud Run for Anthos, Cloud Run on GKE

Managed Knative serverless container layer for running stateless event-driven workloads on GKE Enterprise clusters.

Naming timeline

  1. Cloud Run on GKE

    · Google Cloud Next '19

    Launched in Beta to run Knative serverless workloads on GKE clusters.

  2. Cloud Run for Anthos

    · GA Release

    Rebranded to Cloud Run for Anthos as part of the Anthos subscription.

  3. Knative servingCurrent name

    · GKE Enterprise Transition

    Renamed from Cloud Run for Anthos to Knative serving under GKE Enterprise.

What is Cloud Run for Anthos called now?

Cloud Run for Anthos is now called Knative serving, with the latest change in August 2023 (GKE Enterprise Transition). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Cloud Run on GKE. Managed Knative serverless container layer for running stateless event-driven workloads on GKE Enterprise clusters. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Knative serving on GKE Enterprise

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIsgkehub.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandsgcloud container fleet cloudrun gcloud run services
IAM Predefined Rolesroles/gkehub.* roles/run.*
Terraform Resourcesgoogle_gke_hub_feature google_gke_hub_feature_membership

Enabled as the cloudrun fleet feature on gkehub.googleapis.com via gcloud container fleet cloudrun.

Notes & disambiguation

  • Launched as Cloud Run on GKE in April 2019, rebranded to Cloud Run for Anthos in late 2019, and renamed to Knative serving when Anthos evolved into GKE Enterprise in August 2023.
  • The fleet feature management CLI command remains gcloud container fleet cloudrun.

Sources & official documentation

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