--- title: Migrating Ingress NGINX to Cilium | daily.dev description: Ingress NGINX is being retired, leaving users with two migration paths: moving to another Ingress controller or adopting Gateway API. This guide demonstrates... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-ingress-nginx-to-cilium-e2czybnhu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Migrating Ingress NGINX to Cilium | daily.dev og:description: Ingress NGINX is being retired, leaving users with two migration paths: moving to another Ingress controller or adopting Gateway API. This guide demonstrates... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-ingress-nginx-to-cilium-e2czybnhu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e2CZybnHu.png og:image:alt: Migrating Ingress NGINX to Cilium 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. # Migrating Ingress NGINX to Cilium **[Isovalent](https://daily.dev/sources/isovalent)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ingress NGINX is being retired, leaving users with two migration paths: moving to another Ingress controller or adopting Gateway API. This guide demonstrates both approaches using Cilium as a replacement, walking through setting up a KIND cluster, installing Cilium with Ingress support for a quick migration, and then exploring the Gateway API approach with GatewayClasses, Gateways, HTTPRoutes, and GRPCRoutes. Using Argo CD as an example workload, the tutorial covers configuration details, Helm values, TLS setup, and the trade-offs between the familiar Ingress-based approach versus the more future-proof Gateway API model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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