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Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users#

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (London) digest Program Core pick London · 1–4 April 2025

Abstract Recording

Rob Scott, Google & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco — Core

Play the recording: Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users

  • Why: Ingress-NGINX has been the de facto standard for years; its maintainers moving to a Gateway API-focused implementation is a significant ecosystem signal, and this talk is literally about the compatibility gaps blocking that migration — directly relevant to anyone planning an ingress-to-Gateway-API transition.
  • What: An inventory of commonly-used Ingress-NGINX features not yet supported by Gateway API, and a call for community input on closing those gaps to make Gateway API a true Ingress-NGINX successor. (from abstract only)
  • How: Not a new mechanism — a gap analysis between the mature, feature-rich Ingress-NGINX annotation surface and Gateway API's current spec coverage. (from abstract only)
  • Where applicable: General; anyone currently on Ingress-NGINX evaluating or planning a Gateway API migration should treat this as a pre-migration checklist source.