One post tagged with "Gateway API"

Kubernetes is great at orchestrating containers, but it can be a bit tricky to manage traffic routing. There are many options and implementations that you, as a cluster operator have probably had to deal with. We have the default Service resource that can be used to expose applications, but it is limited to routing based on layer 4 (TCP/UDP) and does not support more advanced traffic routing use cases. There's also the Ingress controller, which enabled layer 7 (HTTP) routing, and securing the North-South traffic using TLS, but it was not standardized and each vendor implementation required learning a new set of resource annotations. When it comes to managing and securing East-West traffic between services, there's Service Mesh which is yet another layer of infrastructure to manage on top of Kubernetes. And we're in the same boat when it comes to resource management with each vendor having their own ways of doing things.