Exposing gRPC With Confidence: A Kubernetes-First API Gateway Approach

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Shows a Kubernetes-native pattern using APK (API Platform for Kubernetes) with Envoy and the Kubernetes Gateway API to publish gRPC at the edge. Demonstrates generating APK configs from proto, deploying via REST and CRDs/helm, and scaling with HPA and gateway partitioning. Live demo deploys an order gRPC service, enforces JWT auth, then disables it, applies a 2 requests per minute rate limit, and rewrites auth headers; all operations succeed via gRPC curl CLI. No dashboard yet; CLI-first.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:12APK for Kubernetes
3. 3:13Control and data plane
4. 5:19Scaling APK deployment
5. 6:40Live demo setup
6. 8:06Deploy gRPC with REST and proto
7. 10:40Deploy with custom resources
8. 12:10Disable auth for testing
9. 14:22Rate limiting policies
10. 16:31Modify auth headers
11. 18:39Q&A

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