Securing Kubernetes Edge Traffic using TLS Encrypted Gateway - Swarup Ghosh and Chirag Kyal

This talk focuses on securing Kubernetes applications in the cloud-native landscape, particularly with the new Gateway API at its v1.0 GA release. The speaker discusses the importance of encrypting connections using TLS protection for edge traffic directed towards Kubernetes clusters, especially for HTTPS workloads. This session explores how to leverage cert-manager issued TLS certificates to secure Gateway resources, highlighting cert-manager's role in simplifying certificate management through automated issuance and renewal. The speaker also covers use cases related to service mesh and compares the advantages of the Gateway API over the previous Ingress API.

Chirag Kyal, a Software Engineer at Red Hat with expertise in secure distributed systems and Kubernetes operators, and Swarup, a software engineer specializing in OpenShift cert-manager, lead this informative session.