Goodbye to Ingress NGINX β What Happens Next?
The Kubernetes community has officially started the countdown to retire Ingress NGINX, one of the most widely used ingress controllers in the ecosystem.
SIG Network and the Security Response Committee have announced that Ingress NGINX will move to best-effort maintenance until March 2026, after which there will be no new releases, no bug fixes, and no security updates. οΏΌ
At the same time, the broader networking story in Kubernetes is evolving: the old beta Ingress APIs have been removed, and the Gateway API is now positioned as the successor to Ingress. In this blog, we describe why this is happening, when a replacement make sense, and how/when you should migrate.