Google Opens Agent Gateway Preview for EKS, AKS, OpenShift

Google Cloud on November 11 opened a Limited Preview of Agent Gateway for cross-cloud, extending its agent governance stack to Kubernetes clusters running outside Google's own infrastructure. The release note lists Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Red Hat OpenShift and bare-metal clusters as the supported targets, provided they are CNCF-conformant.

The pitch is a single control plane for identity and safety. Google says the system will "give each agent a verifiable identity, register agents and MCP servers in Agent Registry, and route their LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic through local Agent Gateway proxies." Those proxies enforce access rules and Model Armor policies, and send "access logs and agent traces to Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace."

The preview carries no fee of its own, though the note adds that integrated products still incur "standard charges." A companion change announced the previous day lets a central management project with the AGENT_MANAGEMENT Resource Manager capability discover agents across member projects with "their runtime identities intact." It lands in a crowded week for agent-platform releases tracked in AI Weekly's agents feed; access is gated by a formal request form.