Gateway Api

In this article we’ll take a look at how to proxy external services through the Kubernetes Gateway API. There are of course more lightweight methods to proxy services, but once you already have the proverbial hammer, why not treat everything like a nail?

In the Gateway API SIG’s own words, If you’re familiar with the older Ingress API, you can think of the Gateway API as analogous to a more-expressive next-generation version of that API. In this article we’ll quickly review the role-oriented architecture of the Gateway API before we implement it using Cilium and Cert-manager.