What are the five surprising Ingress-NGINX behaviors?

Regex prefix/case-insensitive, global use-regex per host, default timeouts, rewrite appends, snippet risks.

How to migrate Ingress-NGINX to Gateway API safely?

Audit logs, test regex with .*, explicit timeouts/filters, validate snippets.

Yes—March 2026. No auto-migrate. Plan or break.

Kubernetes is pulling the plug on Ingress-NGINX next year. But its quirky defaults could wreck your migration if you're not watching.

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Originally reported by Kubernetes Blog