Kubernetes Tutorial #6: Ingress and Gateway API — The 2026 Reality
Your Kubernetes app is running. Services expose it inside the cluster. But how does external traffic reach it? This used to be solved by Kubernetes Ingress and the popular ingress-nginx controller. But in March 2026, ingress-nginx moved to maintenance-only mode. No new features. Best-effort support only. If you are starting a new project today, use the Kubernetes Gateway API instead. It is the official, actively developed successor — built by the same SIG Network team that built Ingress. ...