What is Kubernetes Gateway API v1.0?

Kubernetes is open-source software that automates running and managing applications packaged in containers across groups of machines called clusters. The machines in a cluster are usually not on the public internet, so a hard everyday problem is deciding how web traffic from outside gets routed to the right application inside. Gateway API is a set of Kubernetes interfaces for describing that routing, both for traffic entering a cluster and for traffic between applications within it. It was proposed as the next generation of the older Ingress API, which the Kubernetes project has frozen. Kubernetes SIG Network announced its v1.0 release on October 31, 2023.

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