Experimenting with Gateway API using kind

This guide walks through setting up a local Kubernetes Gateway API experimental environment using kind (Kubernetes in Docker) for learning and testing purposes.

• •kind is used to create a single-node local Kubernetes cluster running inside a Docker container
• •cloud-provider-kind provides both a LoadBalancer controller and a Gateway API controller, and automatically installs Gateway API CRDs
• •A Gateway resource is deployed in a dedicated namespace, listening on port 80 and matching hostnames with the *.exampledomain.example pattern
• •An HTTPRoute is created to route traffic from the Gateway to a demo echo application running in a separate namespace
• •Testing is done via curl using --resolve to map the hostname to the Gateway's assigned IP address