07/11/2025
Kubernetes promised modular, declarative, cloud-agnostic infrastructure.
…until you hit the networking layer.
For years, Ingress was the answer — until teams needed canary routing, mesh policies, safe delegation, or multi-cluster consistency. The Gateway API is not just Ingress v2 — it’s a smarter foundation for modern platform engineering.
In his latest post, Lucas shows how it enables:
✅ Safe delegation to app teams
✅ Unified API for east–west (mesh) and north–south traffic
✅ Real separation of infra and routing logic
✅ Portable policies (timeouts, retries, TLS) across clusters
At Giant Swarm, we help platform teams prepare today — so they can scale cleanly tomorrow.
Why platform teams are rethinking ingress — and how Giant Swarm is helping enterprises prepare for Gateway API adoption across hybrid and multi-cluster environments.
