kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api

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Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.

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Open beginner issues: 4
Indexed issues: 156
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Merged PRs (30d): 43

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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156 open issues indexed

Conformance: no coverage for HTTPS and TLS passthrough listeners on the same port Open

needs-priority needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5273 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Removal of Sunbeam Proxy Open

needs-priority needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5257 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Standardized Attribute Dictionary (Memorandum) Open

kind/feature lifecycle/frozen needs-priority triage/accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5253 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
GEP: Multi Stage Routing Open

kind/feature needs-priority needs-triage

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5250 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
docs: duplicate 'the' in API overview (the the Gateway) Open

needs-priority needs-triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 95/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5246 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
GEP: Pre-Routing (provisional) Open

kind/feature lifecycle/frozen needs-priority triage/accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5224 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Raise the HTTPRoute `rules` limit from 16 to 64 Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5221 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Gateway API community call isn't synced to k8s calendar Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5211 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Filter ordering: support guaranteed order of filters Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5194 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Allow ReferenceGrant `from` section to grant access to all namespaces Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5178 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Standard rate limit API Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5160 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
GEP: Rename Core and Extended support levels Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5152 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Add explicit priority ordering across HTTPRoutes Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5141 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
HTTPRouteRequestMirror: Should request body be mirrored? Open

area/conformance-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5140 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Clarify whether original *Route hostnames or calculated Listener/*Route hostname intersections are used for conflict resolution Open

kind/documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5120 · 19 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Unfortunate CEL validation on ExternalAuth filters Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5118 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Support multiple hostnames in listeners Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5117 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2026
fix/conformance: HTTPRoute status did not update after Gateway listener hostname change Open

kind/bug

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5115 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Conformance test: implementations must preserve status entries written by other controllers Open

area/conformance-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5105 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
SkipTests on a parent conformance test does not skip its sibling tests gated on the same feature Open

area/conformance-machinery kind/bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5104 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Break out the HTTPS-listener-dependent BackendTLSPolicy test so edge/proxy-fronted implementations can claim backend TLS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5103 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Path template match type for HTTPRoute (segment-scoped {*} / {**}) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5101 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2026
GEP: Gateway Address Routability Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5093 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 20, 2026
GEP: Payload Processing (provisional) Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5091 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Azure Application Gateway for Containers mTLS header forwarding possible? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5083 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Conformance Tests for HTTPRoute ExternalAuth filters Open

area/conformance-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5082 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Support ClusterTrustBundle as a valid caCertificateRef Open

kind/feature needs-priority needs-triage

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5075 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Policy Status does not support multiple Targets Open

kind/bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5058 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Standard connection draining semantics for long-lived HTTP connections Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#5014 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Conformance should be packaged & ran as a distributable image Open

kind/feature

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4989 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Validation Limit Extension Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4960 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Migrate InferencePool API to Gateway API Open

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4919 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2026
Simplify L4 conformance tests Open

area/conformance-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4916 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2026
EXP: EndpointSelector Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4914 · Opened May 28, 2026
Per ListenerSet frontend mTLS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4908 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened May 27, 2026
EXP: Backend Resource Open

kind/feature

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4894 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2026
Clarification on GEP-4894: The future of Service resource and policy attachment pattern Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4893 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 21, 2026
TLS passthrough configuration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4891 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 21, 2026
Modernize API markers Open

help wanted kind/cleanup

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4834 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 7, 2026
Add per-backend ALPN protocol configuration to BackendTLSPolicy Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4833 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2026
Inconsistent behaviour in BackendTLSPolicy conformance test for invalid policy Open

area/conformance-test

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4825 · 2 comments · 2 assignees · Opened May 4, 2026
EXP: HTTPRoute Retries (GEP-1731) Open

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4816 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2026
Provide an official Helm chart for Gateway API CRDs Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4809 · 3 comments · 33 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Clarification: rationale for returning HTTP 500 for invalid HTTPBackendRef Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4804 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Add target-side AllowedPolicies support for cross-namespace policy attachment Open

kind/feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4799 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026
GEP: Standardize TLS Options Open

kind/feature kind/gep

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4795 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 25, 2026
Add test and feature for extended backendRef ServiceImport Open

area/conformance-test

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4789 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 24, 2026
GEP-1619 - Route-kind-specific conformance levels for SessionPersistence Type (Cookie vs Header) Open

lifecycle/stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4774 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 20, 2026
EXP: Standardized Telemetry API Open

kind/feature kind/gep triage/accepted

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4768 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2026
docs: highlight "union" features in documentation Open

kind/documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api#4766 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2026

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