Ingress-Nginx Retired. Meet the Gateway API.

The 2020 edition exposed services to the outside world with the Nginx Ingress controller, a daemon on every node terminating ports 80 and 443. That controller is gone. The Kubernetes project retired ingress-nginx in 2026 after the IngressNightmare vulnerabilities made its annotation-driven configuration model untenable, and the broader industry had already moved to its successor. The Ingress API…