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Description 📝

As part of this PR, information text related to private IP has been updated along with a notification banner in Linode create flow. Also this field will be hidden for linode interfaces type.

Changes 🔄

Under linode create flow

  • Updated information text for Private IP field.
  • Added notification banner for its usage
  • Hide private IP option if interface type selected under networking is Linode interfaces.

Scope 🚢

Upon production release, changes in this PR will be visible to:

  • All customers
  • Some customers (e.g. in Beta or Limited Availability)
  • No customers / Not applicable

Target release date 🗓️

NA

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Screenshot 2026-01-07 at 7 32 16 PM Screenshot 2026-01-07 at 7 32 02 PM
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How to test 🧪

Prerequisites

(How to setup test environment)

  • Ensure linode interfaces feature flag is enabled.

Verification steps

  • Navigate to /linodes/create/os and ensure above mentioned changes are visible.
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@grevanak-akamai grevanak-akamai self-assigned this Jan 7, 2026
@grevanak-akamai grevanak-akamai added Linodes Dealing with the Linodes section of the app Linode Interfaces labels Jan 7, 2026
@github-project-automation github-project-automation bot moved this from Review to Changes Requested in Cloud Manager Jan 7, 2026
@grevanak-akamai grevanak-akamai requested review from a team and bnussman-akamai January 8, 2026 09:27
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Cloud Manager UI test results

🔺 1 failing test on test run #3 ↗︎

❌ Failing✅ Passing↪️ Skipped🕐 Duration
1 Failing859 Passing11 Skipped39m 20s

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Failing Tests
SpecTest
object-storage.e2e.spec.tsCloud Manager Cypress Tests→object storage end-to-end tests » can update bucket access

Troubleshooting

Use this command to re-run the failing tests:

pnpm cy:run -s "cypress/e2e/core/objectStorage/object-storage.e2e.spec.ts"

Comment on lines +66 to +67
You can use VPC for private networking instead. NodeBalancers
now connect to backend nodes without a private IPv4 address.
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This copy makes sense to me but here's an alternative wording that may sound better

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You can use VPC for private networking instead. NodeBalancers
now connect to backend nodes without a private IPv4 address.
Private networking can now be handled through VPCs, allowing NodeBalancers to connect to backend nodes without private IPv4 addresses.

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This was the suggestion I got from UX but the wordings are yet to be finalized by tech writer. Our tech writer is reviewing the descriptions and once we get feedback, I will be raising a separate PR to update these descriptions.

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Perfect, sounds good!

@grevanak-akamai grevanak-akamai requested review from a team and tanushree-akamai January 8, 2026 14:29
@grevanak-akamai grevanak-akamai added the Add'tl Approval Needed Waiting on another approval! label Jan 8, 2026
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