From the course: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cert Prep

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Configuring gateway API for TLS access

Configuring gateway API for TLS access

- Alright, now that you know how Gateway API works for HTTP traffic, let's also talk about TLS. So what do we need to know about TLS? Well, the first thing you need to know is about TLS termination. Incoming TLS traffic to an application can be terminated in different ways, either at the Gateway or on the endpoint application. And where you are going to terminate TLS traffic matters a lot for the configuration that you are going to use. Because if TLS traffic is terminated at the Gateway, traffic between the Gateway and the endpoint application is unsecured. And you don't need to do anything here, or you need to re-encrypt if you want to do it real fancy. No worries, there's no need to do it real fancy for your CKA exam. If TLS traffic is terminated by the endpoint application, the Gateway doesn't deal with certificates, but it just accepts incoming traffic on port 443, and that will be passed through the endpoint application port 443. Now, in both cases, you are going to need a…

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