Ways to extend the RHCL operator to be extended to support user defined CRDs of policies, as per the Gateway API, and have the operator reconcile them.

Time Line

• Developer Preview: Oct 2025
• Tech Preview:  TBD (2026)
• GA: TBD (2026)

Splitting the work 4 ways:

• Types of Policies
  • MetaPolicies (i.e. Policies which are merely reconciled by creating other CRs)
    Unlike regular reconciled resources, they may need to be triggered by network object that affects them changing, e.g. a Policy that adds a label to the HttpRoute it is attached to with the name of all Gateways linking to the said route... renaming one of those Gateway object should trigger a reconcile loop, without needing the controller to listen for events on that type "pro actively".
  • Policies (i.e. policies that directly integrate with  the Kuadrant stack)
    e.g. declares a new service with the wasm-shim, defines the request to be made as CEL, upon which predicates, initiates the call and decides on the outcome by evaluating CEL predicates against the service's response.
• Types of attachment:
  • Direct, as per GEP-2648
  • Inherited, as per GEP-2649