Testing the Kubernetes Gateway API with the Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes

The article explains how to use Kubernetes Gateway API with Istio on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Gateway API is a new API introduced in Kubernetes 1.19 that simplifies the management of ingress and egress traffic in Kubernetes. Istio supports Gateway API, and it is going to be the default API for traffic management in Istio in the future.

The author provides a step-by-step guide to deploying a workload using Gateway API, and it also explains how to configure Gateway API with Istio on AKS. It recommends learning Gateway API as it is going to be the default API in Istio and used in Istio Ambient for Waypoint proxies.