Multi-cluster, Blue-green Traffic Splitting with the Gateway API

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Live demo shows Google Cloud’s GKE implementation of the Gateway API programming a Google global load balancer to route across three clusters using the Kubernetes-native resources: service export/import, Gateway, and HTTPRoute. Examples include header-based canary routing that targets gke3, traffic mirroring for capacity testing, and a concrete 70%/30% split where actual requests distribute roughly as expected, proving multi-cluster blue‑green and canary workflows work end to end.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:16The Gateway API
3. 2:48Gateway Improvements
4. 8:01Multicluster Load Balancing

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