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Gateway API: The Successor to Ingress
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Gateway API: The Successor to Ingress

Ingress is frozen at the basics. Gateway API is Kubernetes' new API for inbound traffic, splitting infrastructure and application roles into separate objects, and doing what Ingress can't: weighted traffic splitting, header matching, multi-protocol routing. This article enables Gateway API on Cilium, stands up a Gateway with an HTTPRoute routing by host/path, then splits traffic 80/20 between two versions — tested for real on the EC2 cluster.

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KaiMay 24, 2026· 16 views