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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 explore how to use Traefik in Kubernetes combined with Cert-manager as an ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) client to issue certificates through Let’s Encrypt .