Linux Foundation adopts Solo.io’s open source agentgateway, the first AI-native data plane, to bridge gaps in agentic AI with secure, vendor-neutral infrastructure.
The Linux Foundation has welcomed the agentgateway project, an open source AI-native proxy created by Solo.io to optimise connectivity, security, and observability in agentic AI environments. The announcement was made at the Open Source Summit Europe.
Unlike existing gateways designed before the rise of AI agents, agentgateway is the first and only data plane built from scratch for agentic systems. It governs and secures communication across agent-to-agent (A2A), agent-to-tool, and agent-to-LLM interactions, ensuring modern AI protocols function without rearchitecting legacy systems.
The project supports Agent2Agent (A2A), recently contributed to the Linux Foundation, and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). Contributors include AWS, Cisco, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Shell, and Zayo, highlighting broad industry backing.
With the neutral governance of the Linux Foundation, agentgateway will remain vendor-agnostic and community-driven, ensuring open collaboration, intellectual property management, and long-term sustainability.
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said:
“The rise of AI agents depends on a strong foundation of open source infrastructure that is built to last… We’re pleased to welcome agentgateway to the Linux Foundation where it will benefit from the neutral governance and global community needed to build open, interoperable, secure agent systems for the next generation of AI applications.”
Idit Levine, CEO of Solo.io, added:
“The future of software is agentic… We built agentgateway from the ground up to handle the protocols, patterns, and scale required for agentic infrastructure… Agentgateway is the connective tissue for the next generation of intelligent systems.”
Industry leaders from Dell, CoreWeave, Akamai, Microsoft, T-Mobile, UBS, NYU, Nirmata, and The Futurum Group also endorsed the project, underscoring its role in creating secure, interoperable, and observable AI infrastructure.
The project code is available on GitHub (github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway) and discussions are open on Discord.
