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12/10/2025Updated 4/2/2026

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#### 2. Ingress NGINX carried a massive operational burden. As the most widely used ingress controller, the NGINX implementation became the “default” dumping ground for every edge case and feature request. Performance tuning, security hardening, breaking NGINX OSS changes, Lua scripts, multi-architecture builds — the project became too heavy for a volunteer-driven community to sustain at the quality users expect for production gateways.

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