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Ingress-NGINX Retirement: Plan Your Kubernetes Migration Now
The Kubernetes SIG Network stopped maintaining ingress-nginx in March 2026, leaving clusters with unpatched CVEs and no feature updates. CNCF recommends migrating to Contour or the Gateway API, with the latter as the long-term destination. Operators should verify annotations, TLS, and health-check semantics before cutover to avoid silent regressions.
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The retirement is a ticking clock for teams still on ingress-nginx; deferring migration until a CVE hits will turn a planned upgrade into an emergency.
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