kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api

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Kubernetes Gateway API is the official successor to Ingress, providing a role-oriented, expressive specification and CRDs for L4/L7 routing, load balancing, and service mesh traffic management. This repository contains the API specification, Custom Resource Definitions, and a conformance test suite for implementations.

Use cases

• replace ingress with gateway api
• route http traffic into a kubernetes cluster
• configure grpc routing in kubernetes
• manage tls routes and gateway listeners
• standardize load balancing apis across gateway controllers
• east-west service mesh traffic routing
• verify gateway controller conformance

When to choose

• you need role-oriented ingress/load-balancing config in Kubernetes
• you want portable routing APIs across multiple gateway controllers
• you need HTTP, GRPC, TLS, TCP, or UDP routing with a stable GA API
• you are building or validating a Gateway API controller implementation

When to avoid

• you need a concrete traffic proxy rather than an API spec (pick a controller like Envoy Gateway or Istio)
• you run a very old Kubernetes cluster without CRD support for the required version
• you only need simple host/path ingress and prefer minimal tooling

Facets

framework · maturity stable

routing api-framework middleware networking networking infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing apis go cloud self-hosted gateway-api ingress load-balancing crds service-mesh k8s-sig-network l7-routing l4-routing kubernetes

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