diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c4be89089..09002a0f6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ local-deploy: ## Deploy Kuadrant Operator in the cluster pointed by KUBECONFIG
 	kubectl -n $(KUADRANT_NAMESPACE) wait --timeout=300s --for=condition=Available deployments --all
 	@echo
 	@echo "Now you can export the kuadrant gateway by doing:"
-	@echo "kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/istio-ingressgateway 9080:80 &"
+	@echo "kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/istio-ingressgateway-istio 9080:80 &"
 	@echo "after that, you can curl -H \"Host: myhost.com\" localhost:9080"
 	@echo "-- Linux only -- Ingress gateway is exported using nodePort service in port 9080"
 	@echo "curl -H \"Host: myhost.com\" localhost:9080"
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/auth-for-app-devs-and-platform-engineers.md b/doc/user-guides/auth-for-app-devs-and-platform-engineers.md
index 3e736a00e..b7a0070c6 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/auth-for-app-devs-and-platform-engineers.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/auth-for-app-devs-and-platform-engineers.md
@@ -110,20 +110,28 @@ spec:
 EOF
 ```
 
+Export the gateway hostname and port:
+
+```sh
+export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.status.addresses[0].value}')
+export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.spec.listeners[?(@.name=="http")].port}')
+export GATEWAY_URL=$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT
+```
+
 Send requests to the application unprotected:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/cars -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/cars -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/dolls -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/dolls -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/admin -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/admin -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
@@ -199,22 +207,22 @@ EOF
 Send requests to the application protected by Kuadrant:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/cars -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/cars -i
 # HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamaregularuser' http://localhost:9080/cars -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamaregularuser' http://$GATEWAY_URL/cars -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamaregularuser' http://localhost:9080/admin -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamaregularuser' http://$GATEWAY_URL/admin -i
 # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamanadmin' http://localhost:9080/admin -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -H 'Authorization: APIKEY iamanadmin' http://$GATEWAY_URL/admin -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
@@ -274,7 +282,7 @@ EOF
 Send requests to the route protected by the default policy set at the level of the gateway:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: foo.other-apps.com' http://localhost:9080/ -i
+curl -H 'Host: foo.other-apps.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/ -i
 # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 ```
 
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-for-app-developers.md b/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-for-app-developers.md
index e0e22b83f..6c4305829 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-for-app-developers.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-for-app-developers.md
@@ -86,17 +86,27 @@ spec:
 EOF
 ```
 
+Export the gateway hostname and port:
+
+```sh
+export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.status.addresses[0].value}')
+export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.spec.listeners[?(@.name=="http")].port}')
+export GATEWAY_URL=$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT
+```
+
 Verify the route works:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
-> **Note**: If the command above fails to hit the Toy Store API on your environment, try forwarding requests to the service:
+> **Note**: If the command above fails to hit the Toy Store API on your environment, try forwarding requests to the service and accessing locally:
 >
 > ```sh
 > kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/istio-ingressgateway 9080:80 2>&1 >/dev/null &
+> curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+> # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 > ```
 
 ### ③ Enforce authentication on requests to the Toy Store API
@@ -139,7 +149,7 @@ EOF
 Verify the authentication works by sending a request to the Toy Store API without API key:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
 # www-authenticate: APIKEY realm="api-key-users"
 # x-ext-auth-reason: "credential not found"
@@ -225,13 +235,13 @@ Verify the rate limiting works by sending requests as Alice and Bob.
 Up to 5 successful (`200 OK`) requests every 10 seconds allowed for Alice, then `429 Too Many Requests`:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMALICE' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMALICE' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 Up to 2 successful (`200 OK`) requests every 10 seconds allowed for Bob, then `429 Too Many Requests`:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMBOB' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Authorization: APIKEY IAMBOB' -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 ## Cleanup
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-with-jwt-and-k8s-authnz.md b/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-with-jwt-and-k8s-authnz.md
index c4844c649..fe263c26d 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-with-jwt-and-k8s-authnz.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/authenticated-rl-with-jwt-and-k8s-authnz.md
@@ -82,17 +82,27 @@ kubectl apply -f examples/toystore/httproute.yaml
 
 #### Try the API unprotected
 
+Export the gateway hostname and port:
+
+```sh
+export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.status.addresses[0].value}')
+export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.spec.listeners[?(@.name=="http")].port}')
+export GATEWAY_URL=$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT
+```
+
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 It should return `200 OK`.
 
-> **Note**: If the command above fails to hit the Toy Store API on your environment, try forwarding requests to the service:
+> **Note**: If the command above fails to hit the Toy Store API on your environment, try forwarding requests to the service and accessing over localhost:
 >
 > ```sh
 > kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/istio-ingressgateway 9080:80 2>&1 >/dev/null &
+> curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+> # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 > ```
 
 ### ③ Deploy Keycloak
@@ -157,7 +167,7 @@ EOF
 #### Try the API missing authentication
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
 # www-authenticate: Bearer realm="keycloak-users"
 # www-authenticate: Bearer realm="k8s-service-accounts"
@@ -175,7 +185,7 @@ ACCESS_TOKEN=$(kubectl run token --attach --rm --restart=Never -q --image=curlim
 Send a request to the API as the Keycloak-authenticated user while still missing permissions:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 ```
 
@@ -199,7 +209,7 @@ SA_TOKEN=$(kubectl create token client-app-1)
 Send a request to the API as the service account while still missing permissions:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 ```
 
@@ -281,24 +291,24 @@ EOF
 Send requests to the API as the Keycloak-authenticated user:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -X POST http://localhost:9080/admin/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -X POST http://$GATEWAY_URL/admin/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 Send requests to the API as the Kubernetes service account:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
 ```sh
-curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -X POST http://localhost:9080/admin/toy -i
+curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' -X POST http://$GATEWAY_URL/admin/toy -i
 # HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
 ```
 
@@ -339,13 +349,13 @@ Each user should be entitled to a maximum of 5 requests every 10 seconds.
 Send requests as the Keycloak-authenticated user:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 Send requests as the Kubernetes service account:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toy | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H "Authorization: Bearer $SA_TOKEN" -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toy | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 ## Cleanup
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/gateway-dns.md b/doc/user-guides/gateway-dns.md
index 4b20e46dd..361a10bb5 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/gateway-dns.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/gateway-dns.md
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ Deploy policy controller and install DNSPolicy CRD:
 make deploy-policy-controller
 ```
 
-Install metallb:
-```shell
-make install-metallb
-```
-
 Create a namespace:
 ```shell
 kubectl create namespace my-gateways
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/gateway-rl-for-cluster-operators.md b/doc/user-guides/gateway-rl-for-cluster-operators.md
index 000b8399e..df70cbe9c 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/gateway-rl-for-cluster-operators.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/gateway-rl-for-cluster-operators.md
@@ -188,13 +188,13 @@ kubectl port-forward -n istio-system service/internal-istio 9082:80 2>&1 >/dev/n
 Up to 5 successful (`200 OK`) requests every 10 seconds through the `external` ingress gateway (`*.io`), then `429 Too Many Requests`:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.io' http://localhost:9081 | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.io' http://localhost:9081 | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 Unlimited successful (`200 OK`) through the `internal` ingress gateway (`*.local`):
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.local' http://localhost:9082 | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.local' http://localhost:9082 | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 ## Cleanup
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/gateway-tls.md b/doc/user-guides/gateway-tls.md
index 9e38d2344..3e9a7245a 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/gateway-tls.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/gateway-tls.md
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ Deploy policy controller and install TLSPolicy CRD:
 make deploy-policy-controller
 ```
 
-Install metallb:
-```shell
-make install-metallb
-```
-
 Create a namespace:
 ```shell
 kubectl create namespace my-gateways
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/simple-rl-for-app-developers.md b/doc/user-guides/simple-rl-for-app-developers.md
index c3f0df999..c2bf7c59f 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/simple-rl-for-app-developers.md
+++ b/doc/user-guides/simple-rl-for-app-developers.md
@@ -87,10 +87,18 @@ spec:
 EOF
 ```
 
+Export the gateway hostname and port:
+
+```sh
+export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.status.addresses[0].value}')
+export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl get gtw istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system -o jsonpath='{.spec.listeners[?(@.name=="http")].port}')
+export GATEWAY_URL=$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT
+```
+
 Verify the route works:
 
 ```sh
-curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toys -i
+curl -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toys -i
 # HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 ```
 
@@ -141,13 +149,13 @@ Verify the rate limiting works by sending requests in a loop.
 Up to 5 successful (`200 OK`) requests every 10 seconds to `POST /toys`, then `429 Too Many Requests`:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toys -X POST | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toys -X POST | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 Unlimited successful (`200 OK`) to `GET /toys`:
 
 ```sh
-while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://localhost:9080/toys | egrep --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
+while :; do curl --write-out '%{http_code}\n' --silent --output /dev/null -H 'Host: api.toystore.com' http://$GATEWAY_URL/toys | grep -E --color "\b(429)\b|$"; sleep 1; done
 ```
 
 ## Cleanup