# Optimizing API Management in Kubernetes: API Gateways vs. Ingress Controllers
This eBook illustrates the differences between API gateways and Kubernetes Ingress — and how you can leverage both to manage APIs in a Kubernetes environment.
## Navigating API Orchestration: Choosing the Right Tools for Containerized Environments
## Managing APIs with Kubernetes
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 from this eBook
- - What is API management and what are the key strengths of an API gateway?
- - What are the components and types of Kubernetes ingress and what are the benefits?
- - What are the similarities and differences between Kubernetes Ingress and API gateways
- - The value and importance of lifecycle management for APIs