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In GKE version 1.36 and later, GCPAuthzPolicy and GCPAuthzExtension resources for GKE Gateway are now available in Preview.

In GKE version 1.36 and later, GCPAuthzPolicy and GCPAuthzExtension resources for GKE Gateway are now available in Preview. You can use these resources to enforce identity-based access control and zero-trust authorization on incoming traffic at the Gateway layer. These capabilities are supported on the following GatewayClasses:

• gke-l7-global-external-managed • gke-l7-regional-external-managed • gke-l7-rilb

For more information, see Configure the GCPAuthzExtension resource.

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