MCP support in Envoy - Boteng Yao, Google, Software Engineer

Why watch

This technical session from KubeCon explores how Envoy proxy implements native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), addressing the unique challenges posed by MCP's body-based attribute structure and stateful Streamable HTTP sessions. The talk covers building MCP-aware networking features including request inspection, dynamic routing, transcoding, session management, observability, and security policies, targeted at cloud-native engineers working with AI agent architectures.