Google Container-Optimized OS (COS)

Google Container-Optimized OS (COS)

OS

Google Container-Optimized OS (COS) cos-133 is the newest actively maintained release, currently at patch cos-133-19999-44-126. 4 of 17 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is cos-121, on March 1, 2027.

Latest version

cos-133-19999-44-126

Oct 12, 2026

Actively maintained cycles

4

of 17 tracked

Total cycles tracked

17

since Sep 18, 2018

Support pattern

How Google Container-Optimized OS (COS) has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

23 months

median of 17 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

6 months

median gap between releases

Compared with os

−10 mo

shorter than the os median

Next end of life

137 days

Google Container-Optimized OS (COS) cos-121

Support windows have stayed consistent across the tracked history, so past cycles are a reasonable guide to what a new one will get.

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Google Container-Optimized OS (COS). Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life
Today
cos-133Latest
cos-133-19999-44-126 · Oct 12, 2026
cos-129
cos-129-19506-549-7 · Oct 12, 2026
cos-125
cos-125-19216-739-5 · Oct 12, 2026
cos-121
cos-121-18867-638-5 · Oct 12, 2026
cos-117
EOL Sep 1, 2026
cos-113
EOL Mar 1, 2026
cos-109
EOL Sep 1, 2025
cos-105
EOL Mar 1, 2025
cos-101
EOL Oct 1, 2024
cos-97
EOL Apr 1, 2024
cos-93
EOL Oct 1, 2023
cos-89
EOL Mar 1, 2023
cos-85
EOL Sep 1, 2022
cos-81
EOL Jan 10, 2022
cos-77
EOL Apr 1, 2021
cos-73
EOL Jun 1, 2020
cos-69
EOL Dec 1, 2019
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