kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs. observed · 2026-10-20
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 53.5
- age_days: 2545
- days_rel: 14
- days_push: 1
- n_releases_24m: 11
Adoption not part of the score
3026 stars · 803 forks observed · 2026-10-20
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
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
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api · fetched 2026-10-20 · 1dd96bbd2e77
- homepage: https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1bde00cd495a
- site_page: https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 11d71ec4b9d0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api | main | 95 |
For agents
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