8 posts in series ingress-nginx Migration
ingress-nginx Annotation Compatibility Matrix
Why classifying ingress-nginx annotations by name is dangerous: what migrates cleanly to Gateway API or another Ingress controller, and what silently breaks.
ingress-nginx Replacement Candidates: Envoy, HAProxy, NGINX
A source-verified look at Envoy Gateway, two HAProxy controllers, F5's NGINX controller, and NGINX Gateway Fabric, scored against the Part 3 matrix.
ingress-nginx Hard Cases: Auth, Rate Limits, gRPC, Snippets
A real OVH MKS lab migrates one nasty sample app from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway and HAProxy Unified Gateway: ten hard cases, real bugs, real gaps.
ingress-nginx Inventory: Annotations, ConfigMaps, Flags
Before comparing replacement controllers, find out what your ingress-nginx clusters actually depend on: annotations, the global ConfigMap, and controller flags.
ingress-nginx Migration: A Field Guide
A practical field guide to migrating off the retired ingress-nginx controller: inventory, annotation compatibility, migration mechanics, and a companion lab.
ingress-nginx Migration Mechanics: ingress2gateway and Cutover
An ingress2gateway walkthrough, coexistence patterns, DNS cutover, cert-manager, external-dns, and a rollback plan for a flag-day-free ingress-nginx migration.
ingress-nginx Alternatives: Cilium, Traefik, Kong, AKS, GKE
How Cilium, Traefik, and Kong score against the Part 3 matrix, plus a survey of AKS, GKE, STACKIT, and OVH ingress and Gateway API paths on managed Kubernetes.
ingress-nginx Retirement: Four Ways Forward
ingress-nginx is retired, not retiring — the GitHub repo was archived in March 2026. What changed, the CVEs disclosed since, and four honest ways forward.