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Add a blurb in the about section about Gateway API
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* Deploy multi-cluster applications with unified ingress using BGP-based load balancing.
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* Enable anycast IP addressing for seamless failover between OpenShift clusters.
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* Connect services across clusters using Red Hat Service Interconnect (Skupper) for secure east-west traffic.
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* Leverage Kubernetes Gateway API to give application developers self-service control over service routing without depending on network infrastructure teams.
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* Demonstrate enterprise-grade BGP routing integration with Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
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* *Red Hat Service Interconnect (Skupper)* - Creates a secure application-layer virtual network connecting services across clusters without requiring VPN or special network configurations.
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* *FRRouting (FRR)* - Industry-standard routing software running on EC2 instances that acts as the BGP peering infrastructure, simulating top-of-rack (TOR) switches and core routers.
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Gateway API plays a central role in this architecture. It is the intermediary layer between BGP and Skupper: traffic arriving at a cluster via BGP-advertised anycast IPs is routed through Gateway API down to the appropriate Skupper site, where Skupper handles inter-cluster routing for sparse deployments or services not locally available. Gateway API also separates concerns across organizational roles — infrastructure teams define GatewayClasses, operations teams create Gateways, and application developers independently manage their own Routes (HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute, etc.) for both simple routing and more advanced mesh-like routing scenarios.
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[id="about-solution-imbgp"]
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== About the solution
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