Service Mesh Academy

Gateway API 101 with Linkerd

Thursday, March 13, 2025
9 am PT | 12 pm ET | 6 pm CET

Linkerd has used Gateway API to talk about managing different classes of traffic since Linkerd 2.12, and folks all over the Kubernetes ecosystem are jumping on the Gateway API bandwagon. This "most collaborative API in Kubernetes" is, by most accounts, proving very successful.

Great! So what is it?

Join special guest Shane Utt, Gateway API maintainer, for this deep dive into what Gateway API is, what it isn't, how to use it, what you should expect, and what to stay away from! We'll cover some history, a lot of current best practices, and — as always — the critical gotchas of Gateway API and Linkerd.

What you'll get out of this
  • Understand the purpose and value of Gateway API
  • See how Linkerd and Gateway API work together
  • Learn best practices and how to steer clear of gotchas
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Getting Ready

This is a hands-on workshop, so it's important that you arrive prepared with a Kubernetes cluster, local Backstage workspace, and the Linkerd CLI installed on your machine! We'll use BEL 2.17. Check out the BEL Getting Started Guide for specific instructions on how to set that up.(If you don't want to do the hands-on portion, you are welcome to just listen in. But it won't be as fun!)

Speakers
Shane Utt
Shane Utt
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Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Software engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Linux, networking, container orchestration and distributed systems.