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Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future#

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 digest Program Core pick 23–26 March 2026

Abstract Recording

Nick Young & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco; Katarzyna Łach & Rostislav Bobrovsky, Google; Norwin Schnyder, Airlock

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  • Why: ingress-nginx is being archived, and that is pushing a large population of Ingress users toward Gateway API on a deadline. This session is about the friction of that migration specifically.
  • What: Six months of Gateway API changes plus upcoming features, framed around the incoming Ingress refugees.
  • How: The concrete items are the ingress2gateway migration tool, better integration with cert-manager and external-dns, improvements to TLS handling, and ListenerSet moving to Standard — the last intended to give Ingress users a familiar experience while keeping Gateway API's stronger security model.
  • Where applicable: Anyone still on Ingress, which is still most people. The migration tooling is generic; how much you gain depends on which implementation you land on — see the next pick.