Category: Kubernetes
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NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.5.0: Enterprise-Grade Features and Gateway API 1.5 Conformance
NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.5.0 is here, and this one is a big deal. The release doubles down on enterprise-grade capabilities while keeping us at the forefront of Gateway API conformance. NGF remains one of the top conformant implementations of the Gateway API spec, and this release reinforces why. Here’s what’s new. Gateway API 1.5 Conformance…
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CORS Policy in NGINX Ingress Controller v5.4.0: Patterns for VirtualServer and Ingress
Starting with NGINX Ingress Controller (NIC) v5.4.0, you can define CORS behavior once in a Policy resource and apply it consistently across both VirtualServer and Ingress traffic paths. Across this blog, we’re focused on: Why Use a Policy For CORS? Many teams start with per-resource tuning and quickly end up with drift. Using a dedicated…
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Introducing kubernetes.nginx.org: A Community Hub for NGINX on Kubernetes, Including a New Ingress-NGINX Migration Tool
Today, we’re excited to announce kubernetes.nginx.org, a new community hub for everything NGINX networking on Kubernetes, along with a brand-new Kubernetes community Ingress-NGINX Migration Tool designed to make moving from the Kubernetes community Ingress-NGINX controller to the NGINX Ingress Controller as smooth as possible. Why a Community Hub? Whether you’re running NGINX Ingress Controller, exploring…
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NGINX Ingress Controller v5.4.0: Making Migration Easier Than Ever
We released NGINX Ingress Controller v5.4.0 ahead of KubeCon Europe, and this one is worth the noise. This release is laser-focused on making it easier for teams running ingress-nginx to migrate to NGINX Ingress Controller, without sacrificing the features and workflows they depend on. Here’s what’s new! Configuration Resilience and Validation What’s new: Ingress and…
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The NGINX Kubernetes Open Source Roadmap: First Half of 2026
Hello to our Kubernetes community! Over the past few months, the F5 NGINX Community and F5 NGINX Kubernetes teams have been working on reinvigorating our open source presence. One of our new initiatives involves having public roadmaps available through GitHub Projects boards for both the NGINX Ingress Controller and NGINX Gateway Fabric project! We also…
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What’s New in F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.4.0
We’re excited to announce F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.4.0 has been released. This release represents a major milestone in the Gateway API journey, with the addition of critical production features such as TCP/UDP routing support, Rate Limiting, Session Persistence and many more. The new features will help operators more efficiently and securely deliver AI and modern applications. Summary of changes in this release 2.4.0 contains many new features…
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What’s New in F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.3.0
We’re pleased to announce F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric (NGF) 2.3.0, and we’re shipping it a little early, right before the holidays, for one compelling reason: to meet strong community demand for a Kubernetes Gateway API conformance-focused release. With this release, NGF is now one of only five generally available Gateway API implementations, as shown in the community’s official Gateway Controller Implementation Status. After…
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What’s New in F5 NGINX Ingress Controller 5.3.0
F5 NGINX Ingress Controller 5.3.0 arrives at a pivotal moment. With the Kubernetes community announcing at KubeCon North America 2025 that the community-maintained ingress-nginx project will be retired in March 2026, users everywhere are rethinking their ingress strategies. For those looking for a familiar, production-grade open source replacement, F5 NGINX Ingress Controller offers a solution maintained by the NGINX team. This release focuses on improving existing capabilities, delivering key customer-requested features,…
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The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term
The Kubernetes community announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. After that, there won’t be any more updates, bugfixes, or security patches. This decision came after years of the project being maintained by just 1-2 developers working nights and weekends, plus some serious security issues earlier this year (IngressNightmare CVE-2025-1974) that made…
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NGINX Gateway Fabric Supports the Gateway API Inference Extension
Running inference at scale introduces complexities that ordinary routing can’t resolve. LLMs and other generative AI workloads differ fundamentally from standard web services. With NGINX Gateway Fabric (NGF) version 2.2, organizations can now tap into the Gateway API Inference Extension to enable smart, inference-aware routing in Kubernetes. Platform and ML teams can publish self-hosted GenAI…