Ingress NGINX will be retired soon

Another significant announcement made during KubeCon NA involved deprecation. Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee declared that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026.

This Ingress controller was developed a long time ago as an example implementation of the API. However, its broad adoption and excess flexibility (e.g., "snippets" annotations) became “today’s insurmountable technical debt.” A recent attempt to replace it with InGate (we covered it in this post) failed, and the project became unsustainable, leading to a difficult decision to retire it.

Users are advised to migrate to Gateway API or another Ingress controller as fast as they can.

P.S. Don’t confuse Ingress NGINX with NGINX Ingress. There is a long-lasting naming confusion for these projects.

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