Gateway API continues to mature into a core part of the toolkit for Cloud Native networking. But, since the last Gateway API update, some big changes have happened. This session goes through some of the recent improvements that have happened in Gateway API in the last six months, along with laying out some of the upcoming features.

In particular, with the archival of ingress-nginx coming up, many more Ingress users have been looking at Gateway API, and the community has been hard at work trying to smooth out friction points for those users, especially with helping with migration (using the ingress2gateway tool), improving integrations with tools like cert-manager and external-dns, and making improvements to TLS handling.

In particular, the new ListenerSet resource moving to Standard is intended to help Ingress users have an experience more like what they are used to, while keeping some of the enhanced security features that Gateway API brings.