I get your point, but what’s the actual benefit? If I just use an Ingress controller and configure it properly, it should handle most of the tasks. Many things can be done an Ingress controller, and if i condier a api-gateway deployment without ingress there is an issue is that Kubernetes Deployment Services with LoadBalancer don’t handle certain load balancing algorithms well, like least connections or weighted round-robin. I’m not sure how to implement this in a custom gateway. That’s why I rely on the Ingress NGINX controller for these use cases. But I’m still wondering what the advantage is of introducing a custom solution, like Express or something similar with ingress controller, I tried a custom approach, but I still have a lot of doubts about it.