feat: Use istio to provide Gateway API support (#543)

helm/core/templates/configmap.yaml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
     configSources:
       - address: "xds://127.0.0.1:15051"
-    {{- if .Values.global.enableIstioAPI }}
+    {{- if or .Values.global.enableIstioAPI .Values.global.enableGatewayAPI }}
       - address: "k8s://"
     {{- end }}
 

helm/core/templates/controller-deployment.yaml

@@ -126,10 +126,19 @@ spec:
             value: "{{ .Values.global.istiod.enableAnalysis }}"
           - name: CLUSTER_ID
             value: "{{ $.Values.global.multiCluster.clusterName | default `Kubernetes` }}"
+          # HIGRESS_ENABLE_ISTIO_API is only used to restart the controller pod after the config change
           {{- if .Values.global.enableIstioAPI }}
           - name: HIGRESS_ENABLE_ISTIO_API
             value: "true"
           {{- end }}
+          {{- if .Values.global.enableGatewayAPI }}
+          - name: PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API
+            value: "true"
+          - name: PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API_STATUS
+            value: "true"
+          - name: PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API_DEPLOYMENT_CONTROLLER
+            value: "false"
+          {{- end }}
           {{- if not .Values.global.enableHigressIstio }}
           - name: CUSTOM_CA_CERT_NAME
             value: "higress-ca-root-cert"

helm/core/values.yaml

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ global:
   local: false # When deploying to a local cluster (e.g.: kind cluster), set this to true.
   kind: false # Deprecated. Please use "global.local" instead. Will be removed later.
   enableIstioAPI: false
+  enableGatewayAPI: false
   # Deprecated
   enableHigressIstio: false
   # Used to locate istiod.

helm/higress/README.md

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and
 | global.disableAlpnH2 | Whether to disable HTTP/2 in ALPN | true |
 | global.enableStatus | If `true`, Higress Controller will update the `status` field of Ingress resources.<br />When migrating from Nginx Ingress, in order to avoid `status` field of Ingress objects being overwritten, this parameter needs to be set to false, so Higress won't write the entry IP to the `status` field of the corresponding Ingress object. | true |
 | global.enableIstioAPI | If `true`, Higress Controller will monitor istio resources as well | false |
+| global.enableGatewayAPI | If `true`, Higress Controller will monitor Gateway API resources as well | false |
 | global.istioNamespace | The namespace istio is installed to | istio-system |
 | **Core Paramters** |  |  |
 | higress-core.gateway.replicas | Number of Higress Gateway pods | 2 |