Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.

Ingress NGINX is an ingress controller – a class of tool that allows external HTTP/S access to Kubernetes clusters and the applications they run.

Yesterday’s flexibility has become today’s insurmountable technical debt

According to Tabitha Sable, a staff engineer at Datadog who is also co-chair of the Kubernetes special interest group for security, “It became very popular due to its tremendous flexibility, breadth of features, and independence from any particular cloud or infrastructure provider.”

While developers have created alternatives, Sable feels “Ingress NGINX has continued to be one of the most popular, deployed as part of many h

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