GKE Gateway adds native CORS support, moving policy management to infrastructure layer
Google Cloud's GKE team has released native CORS support for GKE Gateway and Inference Gateway, addressing a long-standing gap that frustrated teams migrating from Ingress-Nginx. Previously, developers had to implement cross-origin resource sharing policies individually within each backend service, leading to redundant code, wasted compute on preflight requests, and inconsistent configurations across microservices. With the new feature, Google Cloud Load Balancing handles OPTIONS preflight requests directly at the network edge, injecting required CORS response headers before traffic ever reaches backend containers. Developers can now define CORS policies declaratively using a CORS filter in standard Kubernetes HTTPRoute manifests, with granular control over allowed origins, methods, headers, and credentials. The implementation follows the open-source Kubernetes Gateway API specification and is currently available in Preview.
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