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Vertex AI Pipelines Agent Platform Pipelines

Legacy names Vertex AI Pipelines, Vertex Pipelines, AI Platform Pipelines

Serverless Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) and TensorFlow Extended (TFX) ML workflow orchestration.

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AI Platform Pipelines
March 2020 · Beta Launch (Deprecated Jul 31, 2023)
Cluster-based managed Kubeflow Pipelines on GKE under legacy AI Platform.
Vertex AI Pipelines
18 May 2021 · Google I/O 2021 (Preview; GA Nov 9, 2021)
Launched in Preview on May 18, 2021 (initially as Vertex Pipelines) and reached General Availability on November 9, 2021 as serverless ML workflow orchestration on Vertex AI.
Agent Platform PipelinesCurrent name
October 2025 · Gemini Enterprise Launch (Release Notes Table Apr 22, 2026)
Rebranded under Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as Agent Platform Pipelines.

What is Vertex AI Pipelines called now?

Vertex AI Pipelines is now called Agent Platform Pipelines, with the latest change in October 2025 (Gemini Enterprise Launch (Release Notes Table Apr 22, 2026)). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Vertex Pipelines, AI Platform Pipelines. Serverless Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) and TensorFlow Extended (TFX) ML workflow orchestration. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Pipelines

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIs	`aiplatform.googleapis.com`
gcloud / CLI Commands	`gcloud ai`
IAM Predefined Roles	`roles/aiplatform.*`
Terraform Resources	`google_vertex_ai_*`

Executes serverless pipeline runs via the projects.locations.pipelineJobs REST/gRPC resource on aiplatform.googleapis.com.

Notes & disambiguation

Succeeded cluster-based AI Platform Pipelines (which ran Kubeflow Pipelines on GKE and was deprecated on July 31, 2023).

Sources & official documentation

Official documentation ↗
Product page ↗
Introduction to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Pipelines — Google Cloud Documentation Official docs · October 2026
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Release Notes (April 22, 2026 Naming Changes Table) Release notes · 22 April 2026
Vertex AI Release Notes (May 18, 2021 Preview & November 9, 2021 GA) Release notes · 9 November 2021
Vertex AI Deprecations (Legacy AI Platform Pipelines) Official docs · 31 July 2023

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