Norwin Schnyder
Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Airlock
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Norwin Schnyder is a Cloud Software Engineer at Airlock and a Lecturer at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. With over six years of experience in Kubernetes and various contributions to the Gateway API, he focuses on building secure, cloud-native ecosystems by leveraging the power of Kubernetes operators. Outside of his work, Norwin is a passionate sailor and has experience using Helm at sea.
Behind the Scenes of Building a Gateway API Dataplane With Envoy Proxy
Kubernetes Gateway API has become the standard for traffic management in cloud-native environments, with Envoy Proxy emerging as the dominant data plane across implementations. Despite sharing the same proxy, implementations differ in how they translate Gateway API resources into Envoy configuration and distribute it via xDS.
This talk analyzes those differences in depth, covering the trade-offs between State-of-the-World and Delta xDS, how ADS ordering guarantees help achieve hitless configuration rollouts and where they still fall short, and how MuxCache can decouple reconciliation in the controller. We’ll also look at how control planes model backends and routes and what that means for scale, policy attachment, observability, and operational safety.
Drawing on hands-on experience building a Gateway API data plane, you'll leave with lessons learned and actionable insights, whether you're building or operating a Gateway API implementation or evaluating one for production.
Gateway API Project Update: Building the Future of Traffic
As Gateway API adoption hits an all-time high, the journey is just getting started. Are you ready for what comes next on Kubernetes traffic management?
Join the Gateway API maintainers for a high-energy update on the project's evolution. We have moved beyond simplifying Ingress migrations to tackling the next generation of networking challenges: from legacy TCP/UDP integration and flexible Backend policies to the cutting edge of AI and Agentic traffic patterns.
Whether you are mastering HTTPRoute features, exploring non-HTTP routing, or curious about our approach to AI integration, this session is your destination. Get a direct look at the latest roadmap, learn about new features, and bring your questions—we want to hear what you need from the project next.
Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future
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.
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