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Ok in case anyone stumbles across this, I found one key input thanks to <https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-guide/|this article>  ... I was using networking/v1beta (which is deprecated apparently) instead of networking/v1. Once I changed to v1, I started seeing different behavior such as the backend,frontends, target proxies etc getting created. I will update this group once I have complete success with this.