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DevOps & CI/CD

Moving off ingress-nginx after its retirement: a Gateway API migration plan

Ryan Pham · Jan 21, 2026 · 5 min read

Kubernetes announced the retirement of ingress-nginx, with best-effort maintenance ending in March 2026. This is the plan we used to inventory annotations, map them to Gateway API, run both side by side and cut over host by host without downtime.

Banner: Kubernetes rolling update where traffic hits pods that are starting up or shutting down

Cloud & Infrastructure Bug Report

502 and 503 spikes on every Kubernetes rollout: readiness probes, preStop and graceful shutdown

Daniel Tran · Feb 20, 2025 · 8 min read

Every deploy of our Go pricing API produced 30 to 60 seconds of 502 and 503 errors. New pods got traffic before they were ready, and old pods exited while the ingress still routed to them. A readiness probe, a preStop sleep and real graceful shutdown made rollouts clean.