A modern, cloud-native ingress controller and reverse proxy that supports Kubernetes Ingress and Gateway API. Role: • Provides dynamic routing • Integrates with Kubernetes APIs • Delivers observability, metrics, and automatic certificate provisioning Rationale: Represents the forward-looking ingress strategy following Ingress-NGINX retirement. Hosted On: Kubernetes v1.35 (Deployed to dev/qa/prod clusters depending on rollout strategy)