Scaling AI Agents: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying ADK on GKE Autopilot

This tutorial guides deploying AI agents built with Google's Agent Development Kit to GKE Autopilot for production use.

• •Use Gemini 2.5 Pro model on Vertex AI as the core AI backbone
• •Implement Workload Identity for secure authentication without hardcoded API keys
• •Containerize with multi-stage Docker builds to minimize production image size
• •Deploy using Kubernetes with proper resource management (500m-1 CPU, 512Mi-1Gi memory)
• •Leverage Kubernetes Gateway API for modern traffic routing and Google Cloud Load Balancing

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