The article analyzes the retirement of Ingress NGINX, explains the security flaws, architectural debt, and community constraints that led to its end‑of‑life, and compares migration paths—including staying with NGINX, moving to Gateway API, or adopting Alibaba Cloud ALB Ingress—so engineers can make an informed decision.
Kubernetes SIG Network and Security committees announced the retirement of Ingress NGINX, detailing the end‑of‑life timeline, lack of future releases or security patches, and urging users to assess their clusters and migrate to Gateway API or alternative ingress controllers within two months.
This guide explains how to set up Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) on an ACK Kubernetes cluster, covering prerequisites, two methods of cluster registration, creation of north‑south and east‑west gateways, traffic routing with HTTPRoute, security policies using PeerAuthentication and AuthorizationPolicy, and observability configuration via Telemetry.
Kubernetes announced the deprecation of Ingress NGINX with limited maintenance until March 2026, urging users to adopt the GA‑ready Gateway API—offering better scalability, clear status fields, and native support for AI workloads—while providing migration guidance, code examples, and performance benchmarks.
This article provides a clear, step‑by‑step explanation of Nginx, Ingress, Ingress Controllers, the Ingress API, Nginx Ingress, Higress, and the next‑generation Gateway API, comparing their roles, strengths, weaknesses, and migration paths within Kubernetes‑based cloud‑native environments.
This guide explains Kgateway’s design as a fully standards‑compliant Kubernetes Gateway API solution, detailing its core features, performance advantages, deployment steps, production best practices, comparison with alternatives, and future roadmap for teams seeking a lightweight, high‑performance ingress and API gateway.
This tutorial walks you through installing Envoy Gateway as a CNCF sandbox project on a Kubernetes cluster, compares it with other gateway solutions, and shows how to configure a simple HTTP route, verify the deployment, and access the service using the Gateway API.
Ingress NGINX will be officially retired in March 2026 with no further releases or security fixes, prompting users to migrate to alternatives like the modern Gateway API or other supported Ingress controllers to maintain cluster security and functionality.
This tutorial walks you through deploying NGINX Gateway Fabric as a Cloud‑Native replacement for the deprecated Ingress NGINX, covering environment setup, installing Gateway API CRDs, deploying the fabric via Helm, creating a demo app, configuring a Gateway and HTTPRoute, and testing the exposed endpoints.
Kubernetes SIG Network and the security response committee announced the deprecation of Ingress NGINX, outlining its limited maintenance until March 2026, the reasons behind its retirement, and recommended migration paths such as Gateway API or other ingress controllers.
This article examines the shortcomings of traditional Kubernetes Ingress, introduces the more flexible Gateway API, explains its core components and role‑based architecture, and provides a step‑by‑step YAML example that migrates an Ingress configuration to Gateway API resources.
Gateway API replaces the traditional Ingress API with a more powerful, standardized, role‑oriented model that supports advanced L4/L7 routing, multi‑protocol traffic, and seamless service‑mesh integration, addressing Ingress’s limitations in scalability, portability, and complex configuration for both platform and application teams.
This article explains how Kubernetes manages inbound traffic using Ingress and the newer Gateway API, compares their features and limitations, provides YAML examples for Ingress, GatewayClass, Gateway, and Route resources, and discusses the future direction of traffic management in cloud‑native environments.
Learn how to use the Kubernetes Gateway API with Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) to configure north‑south and east‑west traffic routing, enable Waypoint, and apply AuthorizationPolicy, through step‑by‑step examples covering prerequisites, resource definitions, and verification commands.
This tutorial explains the newly GA Kubernetes Gateway API, its core resources, and how to set up a test environment with K3s and Istio to create GatewayClass, Gateway, and HTTPRoute objects, demonstrating end‑to‑end traffic routing to a sample Nginx service.
This article explains Envoy Gateway's SecurityPolicy, introduces HTTP Basic Authentication, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including .htpasswd generation, Kubernetes Secret creation, and SecurityPolicy manifest—to enable basic auth for an HTTPRoute and verify it with curl.
This article reviews Kubernetes traffic management, contrasting north‑south and east‑west flows, explains the limitations of Ingress, introduces the newly GA Gateway API, and demonstrates how its role‑based resources and richer expressiveness can become the future standard for cloud‑native networking.
Kruise Rollout introduces a Lua‑script based, extensible traffic routing solution that enables progressive delivery across diverse gateway resources—such as Istio, Kong, and APISIX—by dynamically modifying VirtualService and DestinationRule objects, simplifying configuration, reducing custom code, and supporting automated canary, blue‑green, and A/B testing deployments.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Kubernetes Gateway API, covering its evolution from Ingress, core concepts, resource types, configuration examples, role‑based design, cross‑namespace routing, and practical steps for installation, deployment, and management using Istio and other controllers.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Kubernetes Gateway API, covering the constraints of Ingress resources, L4 routing methods, the role of SIG-NETWORK, reasons behind the API's development, and a preview of deeper technical details.
This tutorial explains the background of the Kubernetes Gateway API, compares it with the traditional Ingress API, and provides a hands‑on walkthrough for installing the Gateway API CRDs, configuring Istio to use a Gateway resource, exposing a sample httpbin service, updating routes, and cleaning up the environment.
This article explains how the open‑source Kruise Rollout framework enables progressive delivery on Kubernetes, covering Gateway API‑based canary releases, batch rollouts for StatefulSet and Advanced StatefulSet, pod batch labeling, and integration with KubeVela for seamless canary deployments.
This article explains how the emerging Gateway API in Kubernetes addresses the limitations of traditional Ingress by introducing a modular architecture, advanced load‑balancing features, and extensibility, positioning it as the future‑ready method for exposing services and APIs in cloud‑native environments.
This tutorial explains the purpose, core resources, and practical deployment of the Kubernetes Gateway API on GKE, covering gateway classes, CRD installation, gateway and HTTPRoute configuration, cross‑namespace routing, and verification with curl tests.
This comprehensive guide introduces Traefik as an open‑source edge router, explains its core concepts and components, walks through Helm deployment, demonstrates HTTP and HTTPS routing with native Ingress, CRD IngressRoute, TLS (self‑signed and Let’s Encrypt), middleware usage, IP whitelisting, TCP services, canary releases, traffic mirroring, and the new Kubernetes Gateway API, providing step‑by‑step YAML examples and screenshots for each feature.
This comprehensive guide introduces Traefik as an open‑source edge router, explains its core components and capabilities, walks through Helm deployment, demonstrates various routing methods (Ingress, IngressRoute, CRD, Gateway API), showcases middleware usage, TLS/Let’s Encrypt configuration, TCP services, canary releases, traffic mirroring, and provides practical YAML examples for Kubernetes environments.
