GitLab announces expanded partnership with Google Cloud

The company states: “GitLab (GTLB) announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud. Google Cloud customers can now power GitLab Duo Agent Platform with the Vertex AI models they already use, and count that usage toward their existing Google Cloud commitments. As AI agents become central to how teams build software, they need strong models and a governed environment to be effective in the enterprise. This partnership brings those together. Agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call Vertex AI models on Google Cloud natively, giving joint customers the model performance they expect with the governance GitLab already provides. GitLab is the system of record for issues, code, merge requests, pipelines, and security findings. When an agent generates a code suggestion, it draws context from the issue that prompted the work, the repository’s existing patterns, and the CI pipeline that will validate the result without leaving GitLab. Every agent action flows through the same access controls, approval rules, and audit logging that developers already follow, so governance does not stop when an agent takes over a task.”