The Difference Between API Gateways and Kubernetes Ingress

This eBook illustrates the differences between API gateways and Kubernetes Ingress — and how you can leverage both to manage APIs in a Kubernetes environment.

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As the complexity and scale of business applications grow, organizations are increasingly adopting containerization to build and deploy their applications. With this new trend comes a need for shifting paradigms in how we orchestrate our containerized applications and how we manage their underlying APIs.

Running APIs at scale is a common motivator for organizations that implement Kubernetes in their infrastructure to manage vast numbers of services with high availability and built-in scalability. This eBook will discuss some of the different ways to manage APIs in a Kubernetes environment and how those choices can affect your overall experience and performance.

Key takeaways:

Key strengths of an API gateway
What is Kubernetes ingress?
Kubernetes ingress vs. API gateway
The importance of full lifecycle management for APIs