"There is no number of maintainers of dedicated engineers that can safely and sanely keep Ingress NGINX online."

Mary Branscombe's avatar

if you're running one of the half of all Kubernetes clusters that's still running Ingress NGINX (I *really* hope that figure has changed already!) then this is the month to get off what @tabbysable.bsky.social memorably describes as a neverending vulnerability piñata because it's officially retiring

Mary Branscombe's avatar
Mary Branscombe's avatar

I wanted to understand if this was the familiar under-resourced open source project story. in some ways it is: @strongjz.bsky.social was clear about how long Ingress INGINX had been asking for help and not getting long term community support. But the *real* problem is the fragility of annotations

Mary Branscombe's avatar

those annotations are what will make your migration harder or easier and they're what makes not just Ingress NGINX but the Ingress project itself unsustainable; Gateway API takes a different approach but the community still needs to engage so it covers the breadth of what annotations did, safely

  • Kubernetes

  • networking

  • migration

  • platform engineering

  • security

  • open source

  • burnout