Version Compatibility

Kong Ingress Controller

The following table presents the general compatibility of Kong Gateway Operator with Kong Ingress Controller minor versions.

Kubernetes

Kong Gateway Operator	1.0.x	1.1.x	1.2.x	1.3.x	1.4.x	1.5.x	1.6.x
Kong Ingress Controller 2.11
Kong Ingress Controller 2.12
Kong Ingress Controller 3.0
Kong Ingress Controller 3.1
Kong Ingress Controller 3.2
Kong Ingress Controller 3.3
Kong Ingress Controller 3.4

General

The following table presents the general compatibility of Kong Gateway Operator with specific Kubernetes versions. Users should expect all the combinations marked with to work and to be supported.

Kong Gateway Operator	1.0.x	1.1.x	1.2.x	1.3.x	1.4.x	1.5.x	1.6.x
Kubernetes 1.25
Kubernetes 1.26
Kubernetes 1.27
Kubernetes 1.28
Kubernetes 1.29
Kubernetes 1.30
Kubernetes 1.31
Kubernetes 1.32

Gateway API

The following table presents the compatibility of Kong Gateway Operator with specific Gateway API versions. As Kong Gateway Operator implements Gateway API features using the upstream project, which defines its own compatibility declarations, the expected compatibility of Gateway API features might be limited to those.

Kong Gateway Operator	1.0.x	1.1.x	1.2.x	1.3.x	1.4.x	1.5.x	1.6.x
Gateway API 0.8.1
Gateway API 1.0.0
Gateway API 1.1.0
Gateway API 1.2.0
Gateway API 1.3.0

`kubernetes-configuration` CRDs

Starting with 1.5, Kong Gateway Operator works with kubernetes-configuration CRDs. These CRDs are backwards compatible with CRDs from gateway-operator 1.4 and older unless stated otherwise in the release notes in kuberentes-configuration CHANGELOG.md.

Older versions of Kong Gateway Operator used gateway-operator CRDs, packaged with the operator helm chart.

Below table contains a compatibility matrix for kubernetes-configuration CRDs and Kong Gateway Operator versions.

Kong Gateway Operator	1.4.x	1.5.x	1.6.x
kubernetes-configuration 1.3.x
kubernetes-configuration 1.4.x