Groundcover Joins Google Cloud Partner Network as Select Technology Partner

Groundcover has gained approval as a Select Google Cloud Technology Partner and an approved workload for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot. This integration allows customers to deploy Groundcover on Autopilot clusters without modifying their applications, capturing full-stack telemetry through a single eBPF sensor.

GKE Autopilot is Google's fully managed Kubernetes cluster that protects users by only running elevated privilege workloads that have been allow-listed by the customer through Google Cloud's partner program. With this integration, Groundcover customers can deploy their platform on Autopilot clusters without compromising security.

Groundcover's Head of Partners & Alliances, John Broad, stated, 'Autopilot enables teams to stop babysitting their infrastructure, and observability shouldn't be the one place they still have to compromise.' He added that getting approved as a partner workload means engineers get the same zero-instrumentation depth of visibility without breaking Autopilot's security model.

Groundcover is also expanding its channel strategy after rapid partner-sourced pipeline growth over the past year. The company plans to launch self-paced technical and sales certifications in the third quarter of 2026, followed by an MDF program in early 2027.