NGINX Ingress Controller End of Maintenance by March 2026 - Qovery

### 2. Rising maintenance complexity Keeping ingress-nginx aligned across Kubernetes versions, NGINX releases, Helm, and patch streams has become increasingly difficult. Recent high-severity vulnerabilities exposed how heavy the maintenance load has become and made the sustainability limits clear. … ## What this means for production workloads If you rely on ingress-nginx today, the risks include: - **Security exposure** once support ends - **Compatibility drift** with upcoming Kubernetes releases - **No feature evolution** - **Operational fatigue** for DevOps and platform teams A migration path toward Gateway API-based controllers is recommended.