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Should we migrate from Ingress to Gateway API? Make the case either way.

Ingress solved routing by convention and annotation, which meant every controller invented its own. Gateway API's real contribution is not features, it is splitting one object into three so that platform and application teams stop editing the same file.

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Ingress solved routing by convention and annotation, which meant every controller invented its own. Gateway API's real contribution is not features, it is splitting one object into three so that platform and application teams stop editing the same file.

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