How the Retirement of Ingress NGINX Signals a Shift to AI-Native Gateways
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18-Feb-2026
Lin Sun, head of open source at Solo.io and a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, explains why the retirement of the Ingress NGINX controller marks more than the end of a widely deployed project. As cloud-native architectures evolve, IT teams are being pushed toward next-generation gateways purpose-built to support AI agents, real-time inference workloads and increasingly dynamic application traffic patterns.
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