Power your AI agents with MCP tools on Google Cloud Run

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What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how does it make life easier for AI agent developers? In this video, Jack Wotherspoon explains MCP to Martin Omander. Watch the duo as they walk through a practical demo of building an MCP server (using FastMCP) and deploying it on Google Cloud Run. Learn why a serverless platform like Cloud Run is a great fit for developers, letting anyone deploy their tools without worrying about managing infrastructure. Martin and Jack dig into the code, covering how an agent (built with ADK) calls an MCP tool and how to handle service to service authentication using Cloud Run's built in OIDC tokens. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - What is MCP? 1:26 - Why is MCP useful for AI agent tools? 2:28 - [Demo] How an AI agent uses an MCP tool 3:55 - Code walkthrough 5:10 - MCP on Cloud Run 6:02 - [Q&A] Why MCP? 6:40 - [Q&A] How to authenticate with MCP? 7:20 - [Q&A] What does MCP look like on the wire? 7:40 - [Q&A] MCP vs OpenAPI? 7:58 - [Q&A] How to use MCP with an existing API? 8:30 - Recap Watch more Serverless Expeditions → https://goo.gle/ServerlessExpeditions 🔔 Subscribe to Google Cloud Tech → https://goo.gle/GoogleCloudTech #GoogleCloud #CloudRun #Serverless Speakers: Martin Omander, Jack Wotherspoon Products Mentioned: Cloud Run, Agent Development Kit