Reference gateway-api mode: one shared Gateway and load balancer serve many tenant GRPCRoutes.
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graph LR CLI[openshell CLI] --> DNS[Wildcard DNS<br/>Route53 CNAME] DNS --> LB[Cloud Load Balancer] LB --> SG[Shared Gateway<br/>openshift-ingress :443] SG --> ROUTE[GRPCRoute<br/>per tenant namespace] ROUTE --> SVC[openshell-gateway<br/>Service :8080] SVC --> POD[Gateway Pod<br/>TLS backend] CA[BackendTLSPolicy +<br/>openshell-backend-ca] -.-> POD CERT[Wildcard cert-manager<br/>Certificate] -.-> SG style DNS fill:#fff3cd style LB fill:#f8d7da style SG fill:#cce5ff style ROUTE fill:#d4edda
Environment-adaptive routing: both modes converge on the same tenant workload and route address contract.
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graph TB
CP[Control Plane]
MODE{GATEWAY_INGRESS_MODE}
CP --> MODE
MODE -->|gateway-api| GA[GRPCRoute + BackendTLSPolicy<br/>shared Gateway prerequisite]
MODE -->|route| OR[OpenShift Route<br/>TLS passthrough]
MODE -->|none| INTERNAL[Cluster-internal Service only]
GA --> HOST[grpcs://gw-<tenant>.<base-domain>:443]
OR --> HOST
INTERNAL --> LOCAL[Service DNS / port-forward]
HOST --> GW[Same OpenShell Gateway pod]
style CP fill:#f8d7da
style MODE fill:#fff3cd
style GA fill:#cce5ff
style OR fill:#d4edda
style GW fill:#cce5ff