--- title: Modernizing Kubernetes Traffic: A Guide to the Gateway... description: A step-by-step guide to migrating from Kubernetes Ingress to the Gateway API using Envoy Gateway on a local Minikube cluster with MetalLB. Covers installing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/modernizing-kubernetes-traffic-a-guide-to-the-gateway-api-migration-gkxfiubey twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Modernizing Kubernetes Traffic: A Guide to the Gateway API Migration | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to migrating from Kubernetes Ingress to the Gateway API using Envoy Gateway on a local Minikube cluster with MetalLB. Covers installing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/modernizing-kubernetes-traffic-a-guide-to-the-gateway-api-migration-gkxfiubey og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GKXfiUbey.png og:image:alt: Modernizing Kubernetes Traffic: A Guide to the Gateway API Migration og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Modernizing Kubernetes Traffic: A Guide to the Gateway API Migration **[Faun](https://daily.dev/sources/faun)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to migrating from Kubernetes Ingress to the Gateway API using Envoy Gateway on a local Minikube cluster with MetalLB. Covers installing Envoy Gateway via Helm, creating GatewayClass and Gateway resources, and defining HTTPRoute rules for path-based routing with URL rewriting between multiple backend services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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