Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user , and inference stays inside your Google Cloud perimeter. That flow works great when it’s just you, or a handful of engineers. But rolling it out across an organization forces you to deal with enterprise friction: you have to manage per-developer cloud credentials, push a managed-settings.json to every laptop over MDM, and not be verified with zero per-developer usage a