Cilium Feature Proposal

The first cut for Gateway API was done in #21749, however, we have a couple of follow-up tasks to support more features from Gateway API upstream.

This issue is to track the work of supporting GatewayAddress in Gateway resources. The current design is to just offload this to Cloud Provider by creating LoadBalancer service type i.e. once the LB service is provisioned and ready, we just take the allocated IP/Hostname from the LoadBalancer service and propagate the same to related Gateway. In order to support GatewayAddress, we need to investigate if similar capability is possible in different cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Google cloud, Azure to start with). My hunch is to just add the annotation in LB service.

• Gateway
  • Support for Spec.Address (if possible).

Goals

Investigate if it's possible with the current design, if not, we should make it clear in the documentation.

Proposed solution

TBD

Tasks

TBD