Deep Dive into Gateway API BackendTLSPolicy
2025-03-31 , The Nash

Show a step-by-step 5-minute example to illustrate how GatewayAPI's BackendTLSPolicy enables end-to-end (E2E) TLS in Kubernetes — from the client to your workload through your GatewayAPI Controller.


Unlike traditional Ingress, which requires vendor-specific solutions for E2E TLS, BackendTLSPolicy provides native support by design.

We'll discuss Ingress's limitations and how BackendTLSPolicy addresses them and provide a step-by-step guide to implementing it for secure backend communication in Kubernetes environments.

Developer and DevOps - Maintainer of Traefik.
Head of Development at Traefik Labs, the company behind Traefik, the popular cloud-native Gateway Controller, and Traefik Hub, a comprehensive API Management solution for Kubernetes.
Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Gateway API in Traefik.