Sergey Shcherbakov provides a breakdown of the options for arranging network ingress traffic into Kubernetes clusters, specifically in Google Cloud (GKE) or on-premise (Anthos on Bare Metal, Anthos on VMware).

The article disambiguates many technical terms often used in discussions around network ingress, including Service, Ingress, Gateway, Istio Gateway, and NEG Controllers. It summarizes each option, its limitations, and provides example configuration snippets for each.

Sergey encourages the use of Kubernetes Gateway as a recent alternative to Kubernetes Ingress, and describes Istio Gateway as a solution for managing network traffic ingress into the Anthos Service Mesh.