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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today we’re announcing the availability of a new open source module that enables real-time insights into Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic processed by NGINX. This capability empowers NGINX operators to trace and monitor activity from AI agents, enabling the ability to spot error-prone agents, high latency MCP tools, throughput disparities between MCP servers, and much […]

The NGINX plugin community has always been prolific, and sometimes a contributor builds something that lands at the intersection of a real problem and a clean architectural instinct. That is what Kang did with nginx-markdown-for-agents, a self-hostable NGINX dynamic module described in a recent DEV post. The module returns a Markdown version of an HTML […]

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support in NGINX open source was contributed by Stephen Farrell, Computer Science Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (GitHub PR #840). This work was funded by the Open Technology Fund as part of the DEfO (Developing ECH for OpenSSL) project, which develops privacy-enhancing ECH implementations for OpenSSL and various web servers to […]

NGINX, a high-performance web server and reverse proxy, has evolved significantly with the integration of Lua via OpenResty. This powerful combination enables dynamic request handling, flexible routing, and advanced features that static NGINX configurations alone cannot achieve. However, embedding Lua scripts into NGINX’s event-driven architecture introduces subtle complexities and risks that operators and developers must […]

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 […]

Gateway API is quickly becoming the standard for managing ingress traffic in Kubernetes environments. One of its key architectural decisions is the clear separation between the control plane and the data plane, which are deployed independently. This split is not just a technical detail, it has significant implications for how teams operate, scale, and secure […]