September 2026
Intermediate
322 pages
7h 22m
English
Most platform teams already know what a gateway does. It accepts traffic, applies routing rules, and forwards requests to a service. Agent traffic does not make that job unrecognizable, but it does make the consequences of a weak gateway contract much more obvious. An LLM request can contain sensitive prompts, an MCP call can invoke a real tool, and an agent-to-agent exchange can carry identity and delegated intent. If those flows take whichever path a developer happens to configure, the platform has no reliable place to enforce policy or collect evidence.
In this chapter, we will use Kubernetes Gateway API as the traffic contract for the AI plane. We will separate the roles of kgateway and agentgateway, ...
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