The Kubernetes community recently announced that Ingress NGINX is officially entering retirement. Maintenance will cease in March 2026.

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Ingress NGINX, the popular Kubernetes ingress controller, is retiring in March 2026 due to security concerns around configuration snippets and lack of maintainers. The Kubernetes community recommends migrating to Gateway API, a more secure, standardized, and actively maintained successor that separates infrastructure, cluster, and application concerns. While migration requires mapping annotations to HTTPRoute logic and learning new objects, Gateway API offers better security, portability across implementations, and future-proof extensibility. Users should audit their deployments, use the ingress2gateway automation tool, and begin migration planning before the March 2026 deadline.

The End of an Era: Transitioning Away from Ingress NGINX