NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.6 marks our initial foray into implementing enterprise grade security capabilities into the Gateway API standard. This release brings F5 WAF for NGINX support to a Gateway API implementation, making NGINX Gateway Fabric one of the first Gateway API implementations to offer enterprise-grade WAF capabilities natively. Here’s what else is new: F5 […]

Kubernetes applications are designed to change constantly. Pods scale out, roll forward, restart, and disappear, so the traffic layer has to keep pace with a backend set that is never truly static. That is the backdrop for both NGINX Ingress Controller (NIC) and NGINX Gateway Fabric (NGF). In both cases, Kubernetes is the source of […]

Caching is one of the fastest ways to reduce backend load and improve response latency in Kubernetes. With NGINX Ingress Controller (NIC), you can define caching behavior as a first-class Policy resource and attach it to a VirtualServer or VirtualServerRoute. That keeps caching configuration explicit, reusable, and versioned with the rest of your traffic policy. […]

NGINX Ingress Controller lets you define IP-based access rules once in a Policy resource and apply them consistently across your Ingress traffic paths. Across this blog, we’re focused on: Why Use a Policy for Access Control? Many teams manage IP restrictions through cloud firewalls or raw NGINX config snippets and quickly end up with drift. […]

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 […]

NGINX 1.29.6 and 1.29.7 introduce significant updates and mark the first in a planned series to add capabilities to NGINX Open Source formerly limited to NGINX Plus. With updates to core runtime behavior and network support, these releases ensure that NGINX can continue to meet the needs of modern applications and AI workloads. Highlights of these releases include: Together, these changes expand what operators can do with NGINX Open Source while simplifying configurations for optimizing performance to proxied services. […]

Before version 1.29.7, NGINX used HTTP/1.0 by default for connecting to HTTP upstream servers. This older version of the protocol does not have the capability of HTTP persistent connections, commonly known as “keep-alive.” Keep-alive reduces the number of handshakes, reduces latency, and reduces time to first byte for most regular web applications. In order to […]

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 […]