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Documents the new first-class google_cloud connector protocol for Google Cloud Vertex AI, added in ml-commons (opensearch-project/ml-commons#4921). The protocol mints and refreshes GCP OAuth2 access tokens automatically, mirroring the existing aws_sigv4 strategy, so users no longer supply or rotate an access token by hand.

To keep cloud-provider authentication protocols symmetric and prevent the Connectors page from growing unbounded as more providers are added, connector protocols are now documented as peer child pages under Connectors rather than as inline sections of a single page:

  • New page gcp-connectors.md — the google_cloud protocol: the plugins.ml_commons.connector.vertexai_enabled prerequisite (disabled by default), both authentication modes (service-account key and Application Default Credentials / Workload Identity), and the credential and parameter options.
  • New page aws-connectors.md — the existing Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock (aws_sigv4) examples, moved out of connectors.md and regrouped so the AWS content is contiguous, with redirect_from entries for the old anchors.
  • connectors.md — now a parent page holding shared concepts plus a "Native cloud provider authentication protocols" list linking the child pages, an updated page title, and a Google Cloud Vertex AI entry in the platform list.
  • supported-connectors.md — replaces the legacy manual-token Vertex AI row with the four new google_cloud blueprints (Gemini, embeddings, streaming, batch).

Additionally fixes a small pre-existing navigation bug: guardrails.md declared has_children: true with no child pages, which rendered an empty expand control in the sidebar. Called out here since it touches a file outside the Vertex AI change.

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Documents the new first-class `google_cloud` connector protocol for GCP
Vertex AI (ml-commons opensearch-project#4921), which mints and refreshes GCP OAuth2 tokens
automatically, mirroring the existing `aws_sigv4` strategy.

To keep cloud-provider auth protocols symmetric, connector protocols are now
documented as peer child pages under Connectors rather than as inline sections
of one page:

- Add gcp-connectors.md: the google_cloud protocol, the
  plugins.ml_commons.connector.vertexai_enabled prerequisite, both auth modes
  (service-account key and ADC / Workload Identity), and credential/parameter
  options.
- Move the Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock (aws_sigv4) examples out of
  connectors.md into a dedicated aws-connectors.md, regrouped so the AWS
  content is contiguous, with redirect_from for the old anchors.
- Make connectors.md a parent page: shared concepts plus a "Native cloud
  provider authentication protocols" list linking the child pages, an updated
  page title, and a Google Cloud Vertex AI entry in the platform list.
- Replace the legacy manual-token Vertex AI row in supported-connectors.md
  with the four new google_cloud blueprints (Gemini, embeddings, streaming,
  batch).

Also fixes a pre-existing nav bug: guardrails.md declared has_children: true
with no child pages, rendering an empty expand control in the sidebar.

Signed-off-by: Tony Piazza <tony.piazza@aiven.io>
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@tonypiazza tonypiazza changed the title Add Google Cloud Vertex AI (google_cloud) connector documentation Add Google Cloud Vertex AI connector documentation Aug 27, 2026
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@jiapingzeng @mingshl Could you review this PR?

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@tonypiazza Is this going into 3.9?

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