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page_title: Consul API Gateway GatewayClass
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  Consul API Gateway GatewayClass
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# GatewayClass

The `GatewayClass` resource is used as a template for creating `Gateway` resources.
The specification includes the name of the controller (`controllerName`) and an API object containing controller-specific configuration resources within the cluster (`parametersRef`).
The value of the `controllerName` field must be set to `hashicorp.com/consul-api-gateway-controller`.

When gateways are created from a `GatewayClass`, they use the parameters specified in the `GatewayClass` at the time of instantiation.

Add the `kind: GatewayClass` option to the the gateway values file to declare a gateway class.
The following example creates a gateway class called `test-gateway-class`:

<CodeBlockConfig filename="gateway.yaml">

  ```yaml
  apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2
  kind: GatewayClass
  metadata:
    name: test-gateway-class
  spec:
    controllerName: 'hashicorp.com/consul-api-gateway-controller'
    parametersRef:
      group: api-gateway.consul.hashicorp.com
      kind: GatewayClassConfig
      name: test-gateway-class-config
```
</CodeBlockConfig>

Refer to the [Kubernetes Gateway API documentation](https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/v1alpha2/references/spec/#gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2.GatewayClass) for details about configuring gateway classes.