## Goodbye to Ingress NGINX – What Happens Next?

The Kubernetes community has [officially started the countdown](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/) to retire Ingress NGINX, one of the most widely used ingress controllers in the ecosystem.

> SIG Network and the Security Response Committee have announced that Ingress NGINX will move to **best-effort** maintenance until **March 2026**, after which there will be no new releases, no bug fixes, and no security updates.

At the same time, the broader networking story in Kubernetes is evolving: Gateway API is now positioned as the successor to Ingress. In this blog, we describe why this is happening, when a replacement make sense, and how/when you should migrate.