---
title: "Scaling AI Agents: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying ADK on GKE Autopilot"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-ai-agents-a-step-by-step-guide-to-deploying-adk-on-gke-autopilot-ihluldylf
source_url: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/scaling-ai-agents-a-step-by-step-guide-to-deploying-adk-on-gke-autopilot
type: article
source: "Google Cloud"
published: 2026-06-04T15:15:32.106Z
updated: 2026-06-04T15:15:55.651Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "vertex-ai"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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

**[Google Cloud](https://daily.dev/sources/gcp)** · 11 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Step-by-step guide to deploying a Google ADK-based AI agent on GKE Autopilot for production use. Covers building a Python weather agent with Gemini 2.5 on Vertex AI, containerizing it with Docker and a multi-stage build, pushing to Artifact Registry, setting up Workload Identity for secure IAM-based authentication, and exposing the agent via the Kubernetes Gateway API with a Google-managed TLS certificate and HTTPS load balancer.

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