Episode description

Hosts Anthony Bushong and Kaslin Fields welcome Bowei Du and Abdelfettah Sghiouar to talk about the Gateway Controller, a tool that helps developers use the Gateway API in GKE.

Bowei starts the show with a thorough explanation of how and why the Gateway Controller was developed. Compared to tools like Ingress, Gateway Controller allows engineers to implement more expressive solutions. While providing developers with portability has been an important part of Gateway Controller, it also gives developers freedom to use non-portable features in a structured, consistent environment and helps manage tenancy across different teams. Bowei and Abdel describe the difference between Ingress and Service and how these tools fit in with Gateway Controller. Abdel walks us through how a company would use the Gateway Controller for optimal tenancy management across name spaces and how this is an improvement over Ingress and Service. He gives examples of how companies are using this new tool.

We hear more about the GKE Gateway Controller and how its fully-managed deployments and integration with other Google APIs make it so easy to use. Bowei tells us how Gateway helps with the unification of mesh and non mesh environments through the standardization of noun describers in both instances. A handy edge to mesh tutorial is available to help developers.

Abdel is a Cloud Dev Advocate with a focus on Cloud native, GKE, and Service Mesh technologies.

Bowei is tech lead on Gateway Controller and a specialist in distributed systems and networking.

• Strengthening your DevOps muscle site

• Kubernetes site
• GKE site
• GKE Gateway API docs
• Kubernetes Gateway API site
• Ingress docs
• Service docs
• From edge to mesh: Exposing service mesh applications through GKE Ingress docs
• Google Cloud Armor site
• Kubernetes Slack site
• • Slack channel: #sig-network-gateway-api
• GKE Networking Recipes GitHub repo site
• The evolution of Kubernetes networking with the GKE Gateway controller blog

Kaslin is working on KubeCon EU.

Anthony is working on software supply chain security with Cloud Build.

Kaslin and Anthony are working together on the GKE Essentials Series

Anthony Bushong and Kaslin Fields