While preparing for the ingress-nginx retirement, I documented the key things that actually matter during a real migration, including:
- understanding what your ingress layer really does today, not what you think it does
- inventorying annotations, TLS, DNS, and risk across services
- translating ingress-nginx annotations to Gateway API behavior
- running a new controller in parallel to avoid risky cutovers
- designing rollback paths before touching production traffic
- validating observability, security, and DR early
The full, detailed guide is published on Medium and walks through the entire migration step by step, from discovery to cleanup.
Free migration checklist included
The Medium article also includes a free Excel migration checklist that covers:
- discovery and inventory
- annotation translation
- staging and validation
- cutover steps
- observability and DR checks
- owners, risks, rollback paths, and environments
The checklist is designed for real planning meetings, not documentation theater.
👉 Read the full article on Medium:
A Zero-Panic Guide to Migrating Off Ingress-NGINX
(https://medium.com/@DynamoDevOps/a-zero-panic-guide-to-migrating-off-ingress-nginx-with-a-free-detailed-checklist-caf355088b6a)
If you are planning an ingress-nginx migration before the retirement deadline, the full article and checklist should help you avoid last-minute surprises.
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