Application delivery on k8s - the past, present and future

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Chronicles the move from ClusterIP/NodePort/LoadBalancer and self‑managed L7 proxies (NGINX, Envoy) to Kubernetes Ingress controllers and now the Gateway API, claiming Gateways replace vendor annotations with native header and query routing via protocol‑specific CRDs (GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute) and a two‑way attach model that separates admin and developer concerns. Describes extensions like backendRef to non‑Kubernetes backends (S3), HTTPRoute filters, gRPC support in experimental form, and notes Ingress remains stable while Gateways add portability and finer RBAC.

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1. 0:00Application delivery intro
2. 1:07Exposing apps with services
3. 4:19NodePort and LoadBalancer limits
4. 7:51Self-managed L7 proxy challenges
5. 9:18Ingress simplified L7 routing
6. 13:54Ingress limitations today
7. 16:42Gateway API overview
8. 22:44RBAC and multi-team access
9. 25:12Gateway API extensibility
10. 27:18Ingress vs Gateway API

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