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What is the difference between gcloud alpha commands and gcloud beta commands?

I have a one question aboud gcloud (google-cloud-sdk).

I have found a gcloud components to using interavtive shell of google cloud.

using like this command

[hostname]# gcloud components list

and I found a results

│ Installed │ gcloud Alpha Commands│ alpha  │   < 1 MiB │
│ Installed | gcloud Beta Commands │ beta   │   < 1 MiB │

In google cloud (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/interactive-gcloud), shows a 'gcloud Alpha Commands' but not exist 'gcloud Beta Commands'.

What is the difference between alpha commands and beta commands?

Solution

  • It's the lifecycle.

    Alpha means that the feature is typically not ready for production and might still be actively developed.

    Beta on the other hand is normally a completed feature, that is being tested to be production ready.

    For more info: Wikipedia