Exposing OTel Collector in Kubernetes with Gateway API & mTLS
The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how you can expose an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector running inside Kubernetes to the outside world securely, using the Kubernetes Gateway API and mutual TLS (mTLS) for authentication and encryption.
As observability becomes increasingly critical in modern distributed systems, centralizing telemetry data via OTel Collectors deployed in one or many Kubernetes clusters is common practice. Often, services or agents running outside your Kubernetes cluste…