--- title: Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement | daily.dev description: The ingress-nginx community controller reached end of life in March 2026, forcing Kubernetes teams to choose a migration path. Two options are presented: Path... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/navigating-the-ingress-nginx-retirement-epyhnhfiu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement | daily.dev og:description: The ingress-nginx community controller reached end of life in March 2026, forcing Kubernetes teams to choose a migration path. Two options are presented: Path... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/navigating-the-ingress-nginx-retirement-epyhnhfiu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ePYhNHfiu.png og:image:alt: Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement 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. # Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement **[CNCF](https://daily.dev/sources/cncf)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The ingress-nginx community controller reached end of life in March 2026, forcing Kubernetes teams to choose a migration path. Two options are presented: Path A is a lift-and-shift to another Ingress controller like Contour, which is lower effort but leaves teams on a feature-frozen API; Path B is migrating to the Gateway API, which requires rewriting routing manifests but offers a role-oriented design, active upstream development, and advanced built-in capabilities. A comparative table weighs migration effort, operational paradigm, future-proofing, and capabilities. Practical migration steps include auditing existing nginx annotations, using tools like ingress2gateway for automation, and running old and new configurations in parallel during rollout. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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