https://kdpisda.in/tag/gcp/Recent content in Gcp on Kuldeep PisdaHugoen-usWed, 04 Nov 2026 08:30:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/gcloud-592-docker-images-drop-system-python-cloudsdk-python-breaks/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:30:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/gcloud-592-docker-images-drop-system-python-cloudsdk-python-breaks/<p>The Google Cloud CLI <a href="https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/release-notes">592.0.0 release notes</a>, dated November 3, 2026, list this under breaking changes for Docker: the system Python and C compiler were removed from the Debian-based images. The tools now run on the bundled Python, and setting <code>CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python3</code> in these images makes them fail.</p> <p>The CLI itself keeps working. What breaks is everything that treated the image as a convenient place to run something else.</p> <h2 id="what-was-removed-by-tag">What was removed, by tag<a class="heading-anchor" href="#what-was-removed-by-tag" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1">#</a> </h2> <p>According to the release notes, the removals differ per tag:</p>