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Teams running containerized workloads on Google Cloud have long relied on JFrog as their single source of truth for container images. The missing piece has been getting Google Cloud’s own runtime services — like Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) — to pull directly from JFrog for every container image pull. I’m happy to say that the gap is now closed. Artifact Registry in Google Cloud has introduced a new repository mode called Connector that addresses this requirement.

Software supply chain engineering has reached a critical inflection point. As autonomous AI coding agents transition from generating autocomplete suggestions to planning, writing, reviewing, and deploying entire software pipelines without humans in the loop, the connection between human intent and production binaries is fracturing.