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  • The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term

    The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term

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    Micheál Kingston
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    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…

  • NGINX Gateway Fabric Supports the Gateway API Inference Extension 

    NGINX Gateway Fabric Supports the Gateway API Inference Extension 

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    Micheál Kingston
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    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…