Ingress NGINX Retirement: The March 2026 Migration Deadline

The de facto standard Kubernetes ingress controller will stop receiving security patches in March 2026—and only 1-2 people have been maintaining it for years. Jordan and Alex unpack why this happened, examine the security implications of unpatched CVEs on internet-facing infrastructure, and provide a four-phase migration framework to Gateway API. Includes controller comparison (Envoy Gateway, Cilium, Kong, Traefik, NGINX Gateway Fabric) and immediate actions for this week.

Perfect for senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers with 5+ years experience looking to level up their platform engineering skills.

Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.io/podcasts/00029-ingress-nginx-retirement