ioning/#release-channels-eg-experimental-standard>experimental version</a>
of the Gateway API CRDs, instead of the standard Beta version we installed above, but otherwise, you&rsquo;re ready to go.
Check out the Istio <a href=/v1.21/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-routing/>request routing task</a>
to get started.</p><h2 id=summary>Summary</h2><p>In this article, we&rsquo;ve seen how a light-weight minimal install of Istio can be used to provide a Beta-quality implementation
of the new Kubernetes Gatew