Getting started with Kubernetes Gateway API and Traefik

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Thanks, I'm back at trying this and just spent another 5 hours trying to configure an HTTPRoute to direct traffic to my whoami deployment. I take your point that it makes sense to use this on a real domain, but I need to prove to my manager that the entire concept of using Kubernetes/Traefik as a routing tool is workable on our local network first. I'm familiar with nginx reverse proxies and this is theoretically not a difficult task, particularly because nginx logs are generally quite helpful. All I get from Traefik is 404 page not found, and I'm not even sure if this is coming from Traefik or some Kubernetes component because no logs are written by the Traefik pod.

I have created a deployment, service and httproute exactly as shown by @conradwt in the post above with corrected indentation. I also tried commenting out the hostnames section, or using various PathPrefix values to try and have Traefik route traffic based on those instead, like this:

# HTTPRoute
apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: HTTPRoute
metadata:
  name: whoami-httproute
  namespace: whoami
spec:
  parentRefs:
    - name: traefik-gateway
      namespace: traefik
  # hostnames:
  #   - gateway.local
  rules:
    - matches:
        - path:
            type: PathPrefix
            value: /whoami/
      backendRefs:
        - name: whoami
          namespace: whoami
          port: 80

None of this returns anything except 404 page not found, regardless of whether I access it by IP address or a hostname like gateway.local from my laptop with this name specified in /etc/hosts. It also responds with 404 when I try to access it with curl http://localhost/whoami/ from any of the three nodes in the cluster. No logs are written anywhere.

I am still able to access the Traefik dashboard under http://127.0.0.1:9000/dashboard/ when running kubectl port-forward $(kubectl get pods --selector "app.kubernetes.io/name=traefik" --output=name --namespace traefik) 9000:9000 --address 0.0.0.0 --namespace traefik from my laptop. But I can't find any way to create working ingress. Would really appreciate a pointer to the right docs or a relevant forum post, thanks!