Ingress-NGINX Deprecation: What to Do Next (Four...

On March 24, 2026, the kubernetes/ingress-nginx repository went read-only. No more patches. No more CVE fixes. No more releases of any kind. Half the Kubernetes clusters running in production today were routing traffic through it. The coverage that followed was immediate and mostly unhelpful — migration guides, controller comparisons, annotation checklists. All of it assumes you've already made the architectural decision. Most teams haven't. They're still looking at four realistic paths, each wi