--- title: How We Migrated a Production Cluster from Ingress NGINX... description: A real-world account of migrating a production Kubernetes cluster from ingress-nginx to Gateway API using kgateway. Covers why kgateway was chosen over... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-migrated-a-production-cluster-from-ingress-nginx-to-gateway-api-v4ff56eht twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How We Migrated a Production Cluster from Ingress NGINX to Gateway API | daily.dev og:description: A real-world account of migrating a production Kubernetes cluster from ingress-nginx to Gateway API using kgateway. Covers why kgateway was chosen over... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-migrated-a-production-cluster-from-ingress-nginx-to-gateway-api-v4ff56eht og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v4Ff56EhT.png og:image:alt: How We Migrated a Production Cluster from Ingress NGINX to Gateway API og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How We Migrated a Production Cluster from Ingress NGINX to Gateway API **[Fairwinds Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/fairwinds-blog)** · 8 min read · 23 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A real-world account of migrating a production Kubernetes cluster from ingress-nginx to Gateway API using kgateway. Covers why kgateway was chosen over alternatives (Envoy Gateway, Cilium, Traefik, nginx Gateway Fabric), how to use the ingress2gateway translation tool, and how to achieve zero-downtime cutover via weighted DNS with external-dns. Also details behavioral differences to expect: WebSocket upgrade requirements, upstream connection pooling issues, and rate limiting differences. Includes operational lessons around ArgoCD sync ordering, cert-manager namespace topology, and running the controller at multiple replicas. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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