--- title: The End of an Era: Transitioning Away from Ingress NGINX description: Ingress NGINX, the popular Kubernetes ingress controller, is retiring in March 2026 due to security concerns around configuration snippets and lack of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-an-era-transitioning-away-from-ingress-nginx-jqy1mrsly twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The End of an Era: Transitioning Away from Ingress NGINX | daily.dev og:description: Ingress NGINX, the popular Kubernetes ingress controller, is retiring in March 2026 due to security concerns around configuration snippets and lack of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-end-of-an-era-transitioning-away-from-ingress-nginx-jqy1mrsly og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JqY1MrsLy.png og:image:alt: The End of an Era: Transitioning Away from Ingress NGINX 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. # The End of an Era: Transitioning Away from Ingress NGINX **[Google Open Source Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/googleoss)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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