Cluster-scoped gateway

[cabrinoob]

Hello,
I have a little question regarding the Gateway. According to this schema :

We can see a clear separation of responsibilities between Gateway and HTTPRoutes. That's a good thing, but, is it possible for the Infrastructure team to provide a Gateway in one namespace, and that the dev teams can deploy HTTPRoutes that use this Gateway in another namespaces ?

What I understand here is that if the TeamA deploys an HTTPRoute in NamespaceA, and the TeamB deploys another HTTPRoute in NamespaceB, and if we want those 2 HTTPRoute are using the same Gateway, I need to deploy the same Gateway in NamespaceA and NamespaceB.

Is that right? Or is it possible to point the spec.parentRefs of the HTTPRoute to a "common" namespace ?

Thank you for your explanations.

[youngnick]

The spec.parentRefs of the HTTPRoute (well, any Route) can be safely pointed to a Gateway in another namespace as long as the receiving Gateway also configures the spec.allowedRoutes section. (The default Gateway behavior is only to accept Routes from the same namespace, but that can be overridden using spec.allowedRoutes).

[cabrinoob]

Thank you for your reply