[Yandex Cloud documentation](../../index.md) > [Yandex Managed Service for Kubernetes](../index.md) > Application Load Balancer tools > Overview

# Application Load Balancer tool reference for Managed Service for Kubernetes


Application Load Balancer provides the following tools for creating and managing load balancers in Managed Service for Kubernetes clusters:

* [ALB Ingress controller](ingress-controller/index.md): For the Kubernetes [Ingress](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) specification.
* [Gateway API](gateway-api/index.md): For the Kubernetes [Gateway API](https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/) specification.
* [Yandex Cloud Gwin](gwin-index.md): For the Kubernetes [Ingress](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) and [Gateway API](https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/) specifications.

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We recommend using the new [Yandex Cloud Gwin](gwin-index.md) controller instead of an ALB Ingress controller and Gateway API.

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