F5 NGINX Ingress Controller 5.3.0 arrives at a pivotal moment. With the Kubernetes community announcing at KubeCon North America 2025 that the community-maintained ingress-nginx project will be retired in March 2026, users everywhere are rethinking their ingress strategies. For those looking for a familiar, production-grade open source replacement, F5 NGINX Ingress Controller offers a solution maintained by the NGINX team. This release focuses on improving existing capabilities, delivering key customer-requested features, […]

The latest NGINX open source updates arrive as a pair. NGINX 1.29.3 delivers new capabilities around TLS observability, header management, and TLS handshake efficiency. NGINX 1.29.4 adds new privacy enhancements and improved security. Across the two releases, we’re focused on: Together, these updates make it easier for operators, security teams, and developers to maintain secure, efficient, and predictable infrastructure at scale. HTTP/2 to Upstream Support […]

At DEF CON 33, Konstantinos Karagiannis argued that usable quantum capabilities could arrive much sooner than many expect. Regardless of the exact date, agencies such as NIST, NSA, and CISA advise beginning PQC migrations now to mitigate the harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) risk. Like many open-source projects, NGINX relies on the OpenSSL library for TLS support. […]

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 […]

We’re announcing the retirement of NGINX Amplify, our free-to-use NGINX monitoring service. If you currently use Amplify to monitor your NGINX instances, please read on for timeline details, why we’re making this change, and how to move to the NGINX One Console. Why we’re retiring Amplify Key benefits of transitioning to NGINX One Timeline Gaps […]

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 […]

Over the last few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken over the world by storm. The rapid growth of AI models and services has created a complex landscape where organizations are starting to combine multiple Large Language Model (LLM) providers and manage different model endpoints with varying API specifications to build their AI-powered applications. We […]

The Kubernetes ecosystem is undergoing a significant transformation in how it handles networking, shifting from traditional Ingress API and annotations to the more advanced Gateway API. This change is driven by the growing complexity of modern applications and the need for more sophisticated traffic management. NGINX, a leader in application delivery, is at the forefront […]

Let’s continue our journey into Kubernetes networking and the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller. In a previous post, we detailed some of the reasons for migrating from the community ingress-nginx controller to the robust and actively developed open source F5 NGINX Ingress Controller. Migrating a core infrastructure component like an Ingress controller requires careful planning and […]

Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.