Developer Builds Open-Source Gateway to End E2B Sandbox Vendor Lock-in

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A developer has released E2BGateway, an open-source tool designed to eliminate vendor lock-in for teams building AI agents that execute code in sandboxes. The gateway acts as an abstraction layer between the official E2B SDK and multiple sandbox backends, including E2B Cloud, Kubernetes-native agent-sandbox, and container-based OpenSandbox. Existing E2B users can migrate by changing a single environment variable, requiring no other code modifications. E2BGateway supports production-grade features such as authentication, rate limiting, audit logging, and OpenTelemetry observability. The project aims to give developers full control over their sandbox infrastructure, including the option to run workloads on their own Kubernetes clusters and avoid cloud vendor costs.

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