There are some revolutionary features coming to GKE-OP:

• A new installer helps you create and prepare the admin workstation.
• In bundled load balancing mode, GKE on-prem provides and manages the Seesaw load balancer.
• The Authentication Plugin for Anthos has been integrated into and replaced with the Google Cloud command-line interface, which improves the authentication process and provides the user consent flow through gcloud commands.
• vSphere credential rotation is enabled. Users can now use Solution User Certificates to authenticate to GKE deployed on-prem.
• Preview Feature: Introducing User cluster Nodepools.
• gkectl automatically uses the proxy URL from config.yaml to configure the proxy on the admin workstation.

Full list of features is available here:

https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/release-notes

In the follow up post we will have a closer look at those new features!