Can't use Kubernetes Gateway with Traefik

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I came across this post, and then further navigated to the documentation page explaining static and dynamic configuration

Where is actual configuration file of traefik in k8s pod?

Hey @joey-yoonsung Thanks for using Traefik and asking the question here. The configuration of Traefik is split into static and dynamic configurations. As static configuration, we understand everything that requires Traefik to be restarted in order to apply new changes. There are 3 ways of managing Traefik static configuration: CLI arguments Environment variables a file Those three methods are mutually exclusive. It means if you use CLI you should stick to it and add all changes to the con…

In the output of docker run traefik:v2.6 --help I see this commandline argument

--experimental.kubernetesgateway  (Default: "false")
    Allow the Kubernetes gateway api provider usage.
...
--providers.kubernetesgateway  (Default: "false")
    Enable Kubernetes gateway api provider with default settings.

So it seems like that's the only command line arguments you need to pass to enable the gateway api. The way I updated the configuration is by kubectl describe deploy traefik (reminding the reader that I'm using k3s) and I pasted the output to a new yaml file and deleted the status key entirely. Then I added the two keys above to the args section, and ran kubectl delete deploy traefik then kubectl apply -f <yamlfile>. Now the new traefik deployment runs with the two arguments.

However, this didn't solve the problem. 16 minutes after applying but still Message: Waiting for controller.