diff --git a/nodes/_defaults.yaml b/nodes/_defaults.yaml
index 6a18e54..587826e 100644
--- a/nodes/_defaults.yaml
+++ b/nodes/_defaults.yaml
@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ patchesControlPlane:
   - !patch sops
   - !patch cluster-variables
   - !patch metrics-cluster
+  - !patch gateway-api
diff --git a/patches/gateway-api.yaml b/patches/gateway-api.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87ca9f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/gateway-api.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+cluster:
+  extraManifests:
+    - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/releases/download/v1.4.1/standard-install.yaml