https://marktaguiad.dev/tags/gateway/ Recent content in Gateway on marktaguiad.dev Hugo en-us marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) marktaguiad.dev Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://marktaguiad.dev/post/k8s-cilium-gateway/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) https://marktaguiad.dev/post/k8s-cilium-gateway/ <p>Cilium Gateway API support is a modern replacement for traditional Kubernetes Ingress controllers.</p> <p>Instead of relying on standalone ingress proxies, Cilium integrates Gateway API directly into the networking stack using <strong>eBPF</strong> and <strong>Envoy</strong>, enabling:</p> <ul> <li>HTTP / HTTPS routing</li> <li>TLS passthrough</li> <li>TLS termination</li> <li>Traffic splitting</li> <li>Header manipulation</li> <li>Standards-based ingress with Kubernetes Gateway API</li> </ul> <p>Cilium’s operator acts as the Gateway API controller and manages:</p> <ul> <li><code>GatewayClass</code></li> <li><code>Gateway</code></li> <li><code>HTTPRoute</code></li> <li>LoadBalancer Services</li> <li>eBPF traffic routing</li> </ul> <p>This is similar with Istio Gateway, for our example let&rsquo;s use the same deployments/apps.</p>