KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

With its graduation, Gateway API has emerged as the new standard for managing L4 and L7 routing within Kubernetes, as it brings in a wider set of functionalities and flexibility never seen with the ingress API, and is implemented widely for both ingress and service mesh use cases. The trade-off of having such a powerful API is additional complexity, and navigating the intricacies of Gateway API involves listing multiple resources, cross-referencing and understanding the relationships between them, and ensuring explicit authorization for all cross-namespace references - a formidable challenge, nonetheless. In this talk, Gaurav and Mattia will walk you through how to use gwctl, a command-line tool designed specifically for Gateway API (which is part of the Gateway API project itself), that works seamlessly alongside Kubectl. Together, we will easily navigate resources, wrangle policies, and track down trouble in your Gateway API configuration.