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By Tomy Hsieh
I’m trying out the latest Gateway API on DOKS, following this tutorial.
I apply the exact same yaml provided to provision a Gateway, but when I try to get the gateway, it says:
> kubectl get gateways
NAME CLASS ADDRESS PROGRAMMED AGE
cilium-gateway-http cilium Unknown 3m14s
instead of the PROGRAMMED=true indicated in the tutorial.
Furthermore, I notice the Cilium GatewayClass provided by DO seems to have some issues:
> kubectl describe gatewayclass cilium
Name: cilium
Namespace:
Labels: c3.doks.digitalocean.com/component=cilium
c3.doks.digitalocean.com/plane=data
c3.doks.digitalocean.com/variant=ebpf
doks.digitalocean.com/managed=true
Annotations: <none>
API Version: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
Kind: GatewayClass
Metadata:
Creation Timestamp: 2025-10-31T05:32:49Z
Generation: 1
Resource Version: 1502
UID: 9e7488ed-5ed3-47ee-b599-b0c731dd5a6f
Spec:
Controller Name: io.cilium/gateway-controller
Description: The default Cilium GatewayClass
Status:
Conditions:
Last Transition Time: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
Message: Waiting for controller
Reason: Pending
Status: Unknown
Type: Accepted
Events: <none>
Notice the Message says “Waiting for controller”, and the timestamp seems like a placeholder.
Can confirm the cluster is running on the latest version
> kubectl version
Client Version: v1.34.1
Kustomize Version: v5.7.1
Server Version: v1.33.1
I’ve tried to create another cluster in a different region, but they all result in the same error.
What can go wrong here?
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