As Kubernetes environments mature, organizations are moving beyond basic Ingress toward a more secure, scalable, and GitOps-friendly networking model. Enter the Gateway API — a powerful evolution in Kubernetes traffic management that brings modularity, flexibility, and policy enforcement into the DevSecOps workflow.

In this session, we’ll explore how the Gateway API enables secure, declarative traffic control aligned with GitOps principles. We’ll walk through how teams can separate concerns between platform and application teams, use ReferenceGrants to safely delegate routing, and enforce security policies such as TLS, traffic validation, and least-privilege routing — all through version-controlled manifests.

Whether you’re deploying services across multiple teams, looking to shift security left, or trying to avoid configuration drift in production — this talk will show how Gateway API can be the missing link between networking, security, and GitOps automation.