What Winning Migrations Actually Looks Like After the Community's Ingress Controller Retirement
F5, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
F5 shares three examples of organizations moving to F5 NGINX Ingress Controller after Ingress NGINX retired.
More than half a year after the community-maintained Ingress NGINX controller for Kubernetes was retired, F5 says platform teams are choosing long-term replacements.
Many are moving to F5 NGINX Ingress Controller for an enterprise-grade option with a low-risk migration path.
The post gives three examples, including a major insurance provider whose mission-critical Azure applications depended on the deprecated controller and needed hardened releases and enterprise support.