Ingress-NGINX discontinued since March 24, 2026: What operators should do now

Ingress-NGINX discontinued since March 24, 2026: What operators should do now

Since March 24, 2026, Ingress-NGINX has received no new releases, bug fixes, or security patches. Existing installations continue to work, but operational risk increases over time.

A migration should not be treated as a simple replacement of individual YAML resources. Annotations, TLS, authentication, rewrites, network behavior, and controller-specific edge cases must be reviewed systematically.

The discontinuation and end of further releases, bug fixes, and security updates are documented in the Kubernetes v1.36 Release Notes.

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