Use a gateway GatewayParameters object to make the service’s port a NodePort

Author: shmuelk

deploy/environments/dev/kind-kgateway/gateway-parameters.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+apiVersion: gateway.kgateway.dev/v1alpha1
+kind: GatewayParameters
+metadata:
+  name: custom-gw-params
+spec:
+  kube: 
+    service:
+      type: NodePort
+      extraLabels:
+        gateway: inference-gateway
+    podTemplate:
+      extraLabels:
+        gateway: inference-gateway

deploy/environments/dev/kind-kgateway/kustomization.yaml

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ resources:
 - services.yaml
 - ../../../components/kgateway-control-plane/
 - ../../../components/vllm-sim/
+- gateway-parameters.yaml
 - ../../../components/inference-gateway/
 
 patches:

deploy/environments/dev/kind-kgateway/patch-gateways.yaml

@@ -4,3 +4,8 @@ metadata:
   name: inference-gateway
 spec:
   gatewayClassName: kgateway
+  infrastructure:
+    parametersRef:
+      name: custom-gw-params
+      group: gateway.kgateway.dev
+      kind: GatewayParameters