How to Move to the Gateway API: post ingress-nginx Retirement
The upcoming retirement of ingress-nginx in early 2026 gives infrastructure teams both a deadline and an opportunity to rethink traffic management. Configuring the Ingress API often meant relying on controller-specific annotations that varied between implementations. The Gateway API offers a cleaner, standardized alternative. This post investigates the practical reality of this migration and explores why kgateway emerges as a robust solution for the future.